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I posted the 23th RPM on the previous post... this RPM includes my friend Inoue Shin from Japan, who is also a proud GT-R driver. You may have seen him on documentary film about GT-Rs in UK called The Nissan Skyline GT-R Story Movie and I accidentally add him on Facebook, since I was a huge fan of his black R34 V-spec, equipped with Mine's engine... well, enough chatter from me... enjoy the story!

PS: In case you want to see what he looked like and his black GT-R back then, here is the link of the part where he and his cool GT-R is spotted on... he's on 4:30

and better yet, here's his profile on Facebook... you can add him if you have a facebook account... Shin Inoue

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Jun 21 2010, 03:43 AM

THE GOD HAS MADE HIS PRESENCE!!! WE ARE IN YOUR DEBT REX!!


[ Post merged on Jun 22 2010, 01:33 AM ]
By the way, I haven't seen Tomo, Seiji, nor Daiki/any Akiyama Racing School scenes so far... :/

Man, you certainly have updated a lot. XD

I haven't had time to visit this section of the forum much, so this is a nice change of pace..

the test part comes out very soon... it's on the next RPM

oh yeah, I'll put the character's list here...

Characters

High School Street Racers
They are the newcomers at the street. All of the members are just a normal high school student with a lot in common. There is no leader in this team which what makes them really famous for their friendships on the team. After major loss, even against small teams, they are back to the bottom line of reputation.

Ninomiya Sora
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2006 BNR34 Nismo GT-R Z-tune
Alias : Blue Phantom, Sky, Sky King
Desc :
He’s Souya’s best friend back at Aomori, and he’s here at Tokyo to continue his study. He has a long history with Souya, and both of them are known as 'So-So' back at their junior high school. He has an extreme passion of speed in his blood, more than everybody else in the team. He and his GT-R will play a big role in the team’s success.
Little is known about him at the present, and even though he looks handsome and cool, he can be a weirdo and a geek sometimes. But when it comes to cars and stuffs, he’ll get worked up easily. He will act as the main character for the rest of the story. His hobby is spending all of his money for car parts or car related things, so he is never seen hanging out with a girl, despite his handsome look and medium built body.
Though he is a newbie in the team, he knows how to handle a GT-R, and his GT-R isn’t an ordinary GT-R. Kojiro gave him the ultimate GT-R ever created by Nismo; the Z-tune, and little is known about the specs of the blue car. What Kojiro knows is Nismo created the car as a special request from him for his wife, and the car chooses its own driver. The output is unknown but the car is able to reach 350 KM/H, adding more mystery to it. Only few can see its true form and Sora is the first one to see it. Its true form is a beautiful and voluptuous angel with blue tank top, backless dress.
After he beats Bernard back on Suzuka, he finally claims the Sky King title. After he claims the title he looks calmer and well mannered than before. At first he doubts himself whether he can live up as the new Sky King, but when he remembers that he had his Z-tune beside him, he regains back his confidence and is ready to take on anything that gets thrown into him.

Ichijou Hikaru
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2008 AP1 S2000, 1995 NA1 NSX type-R
Alias : White Ghost
Desc :
Hikaru is a normal high school student with good looks, and good grades in his school. Attracted to street racing and eventually become street racer when he’s defeated The Sky King with his newly purchased Nur. His tendency to act insensitive makes him popular among girls in his school.
After Moriyama’s plot to kill him, Hikaru lost his faith in street racing until he comes back from Suzuka with the new car; Honda S2000. This time, his car is faster, and lighter. He intends to be a shadow driver; with no one knows his identity, just like the Black Phantom he idolizes. He chooses the word ‘Ghost’ because he’s already dead in street racing world, but still lingering in the same world itself.

Keith Valentine
Race : American-German
Age : 18
Ride : 2008 E92 BMW M3
Alias : Grip Runner
Desc :
A new member of High School Street Racer that has been called a genius by all his new friend and foe. His love for milk makes him famous easily, because he always spotted with boxed milk on every racing meets. Even though the car he wants is a Nissan GT-R, he ended up choosing an E92 M3 to be his partner. Paired with one of the most powerful BMW M cars ever, he become one of the most feared and respected racer both by his teammates and enemies. The story will become more and more focused to him, as he’s trying to catch up with the fame of Hikaru and the others.
After the Red GTR rumors, he decided to tune up his car with a help of Mario Theisen; the principal of BMW F1 racing team. His car will act as the tuning base of 2009 M3 GTR, used in ALMS.

Matsuyama Gonsuke
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2001 BB6 Honda Prelude
Alias : H22 Fan
Desc :
One of Hikaru’s car loving gang members. He has humble looks on his face, wavy dyed green hair, and average grades on his school. Unlike Hikaru’s who’s a fan of Nissan, he is a die hard fan of Honda. He always work part time with Hikaru on the same place.

Hourai Souya
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2001 FD3S Mazda RX-7 type R Bathurst R
Alias : Rotary Disciple
Desc :
Another member of Hikaru’s car loving gang and he is a fanatic of Mazda RX-7. With spiky hair dyed orange carrot, he’s easily becomes a geek in his class. He’s trying to be the best driver along with Hikaru and the others. He is good friend of Sora, and they have a long history together.

Francis Steve Blackburn
Race : Spanish-American
Age : 19
Ride : 2002 E46 BMW M3 GTR, 2008 Porsche 911 GT2
Alias : Red GTR, Red Lizard
Desc :
Good looking, medium muscular body, and Light blond spiky hair are his trademark. Besides he’s a member of Hikaru’s car loving gang, he’s also likes fast sport bikes. While Hikaru likes Nissan, he Likes Toyota same as Yamada and Tarou. He’s a street racer once with Ducati 1098, before his older brother kicks him out from New York to Japan.
After he flipped his car at 200 KM/H and destroyed it, he comes back to New York City to get a new car. With his new red blood Evo X, he plans to be the best in 4WD driver in history.
But after his defeat, Steve returns back to New York. Keith is the person who defeats him and he plans to get him back someday. Luckily, fate sides with him; his brother called him to ask for his assistance. And for the reward, he receives some money and one of the most powerful BMW cars in history; The BMW M3 GTR. But even M3 GT-R is not enough to banish Sora’s Blue Phantom, and he said that he needs faster car to defeat it.
He broke up with Jessie with no apparent reason, and looks like only both of them knows what is really going on. He changed a lot after he broke up with Jessie. Instead of his usual coolness, he turns into a clumsy and sarcastic guy, who likes to joke a lot and makes unusual comments or loud sounds.
Steve gets his new car after he was reunited with his computer geek friend; Fujima Scott. He trades his M3 GTR for a new 911 GT2, which has the same twin turbocharged capability, like Sora’s Z-tune. Nevertheless when he challenged Sora with a new car, he gets beaten because of snapping fan belt. He gets Red Lizard title, apparently because of mistaken team name, confused with his car’s color; red.

Yuichi Tarou
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2000 Z3 Toyota Soarer
Alias : Sideways, D Candidate
Desc :
A fan of Drifting formula and always keep tracks on his drifting hobby. It’s the main reason why he bought his Soarer. Aside from the fact that he’s cutie and skinny, he has great and respected people as his connection. Even though his family is rich, and he has everything he needs, he chooses to be with his friends than hanging around with other rich kids.

Clark Landers
Race : England
Age : 19
Ride : 2000 Lotus Elise series 2, then changes to 2008 Lotus Evora
Alias : English Gentleman
Desc :
He always considers himself as an English Gentleman and loves football. He rides Lotus Elise, which is actually has same Toyota engine as Celica. Always been an easy going person with carefree attitude. Beneath his attitude, he has big plans for his future.

Tsubasa Yamada
Race : Japanese
Age : 19
Ride : 1999 SW20 Toyota MR2
Alias : Snap Oversteer
Desc :
An old friend of Gonsuke. He likes the way his car behaves; Snap oversteers, and got his nicknames from it. With his ability and his car’s behavior, he became famous on street racing world. He and Iwami are recently transferred to Hikaru’s class.

Yamato Iwami
Race : Japanese
Age : 18
Ride : 2002 GK Hyundai Tiburon
Alias : Korean Imports
Desc :
Yamada and Gonsuke’s old friend. He never really likes the idea of nationality’s creation, so instead he drives Japanese cars, he drives Korean cars. He works at Shell gas station with Yamada, to keep track on cars that come and go in the neighborhood. Iwami and Yamada are recently transferred to Hikaru’s class.

The girls

Kisaragi Aya
Race : Japanese-American
Age : 19
Ride : 2002 S15 Nissan Silvia spec-R V-package
Alias : Midnight Princess
Desc :
She came to Tokyo as a transferred student from Boston, along with her friend Claire. She drives an S15, equipped with fine spec RB26DETT, and therefore makes it fast. She is also a type of car freak, knowing a lot of cars and information that surrounds them. As a mixed ethnicity of Japanese and American, she inherited both of the positive appearance from both of her parents; sexiness of Western woman from her mother, and Asian looks from her father. Born blonde with blue eyes, she immediately attracts the attention of every boy in her class.

Mayama Claire
Race : Japanese-American
Age : 19
Ride : 2007 Z33 Nismo Fairlady Z 380RS
Alias : Scarlet
Desc :
She came to Tokyo as a transferred student from New York, along with her friend Aya. She was not a car lover, until she and Aya got passed by speeding Sora and Steve at Yokohane line when Aya test drive her car. She chooses 380RS because it has some similarities like Steve’s red GT2. Like Aya, she was born beautiful. But instead of domination of western traits and looks, she had Asian traits and looks. Brown hairs and green eyes, add it up with her charm, cuteness, and sexiness, there won't be anybody that wouldn’t turns his or her attentions to her.

Atsuno Sakura
Race : Japanese
Age : 19
Ride : 2008 CBA-R35 Nissan GT-R
Alias : Violet Flower
Desc :
She is Yuki’s cousin, and she is one genius girl of Amano family. She is a skillful doctor, with an age of 19 years old making a lot of her fellow colleagues on the hospital respected her greatly. She doesn’t inherit Amano’s name because her father’s quarrel with her grandfather, making her inherited her mother’s name.
Atsuno means hot and fiery, and she certainly shows that. She is a sexy girl and aggressive, and she has no problem showing her fiery personality to everyone. She acted as the vice-leader of their newly reformed team; The Racing Queens. Despite her mature looks and strong will, she is very fragile.

Amano Yuki
Race : Japanese
Age : 20
Ride : 2008 Ducati 1098S, 2002 BNR34 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-spec II Nur
Alias : Black Phantom
Desc :
Another bombshell girl Hikaru meets. Beautiful face, sexy body, big boobs, and great butt is combined with her unusual short white silver hair to the shoulder and chilly blue eyes, makes all head turned to her. Even though she has wild behavior and rash, she only shows her womanly side to one person she chooses to be her future husband. She is sexier and hotter than Rena did, and she is a contrast for Rena’s calm behavior. She loves many kinds of dangerous sports, like Jessica does to prove herself. She is added as one of the sexiest girl in class. She is the inheritor of the Black Phantom from Seno.

Kagari Hibana
Race : Japanese
Age : 20
Ride : 2008 Lexus IS-F
Alias : Flying F
Desc :
She is a friend of Sakura. She also works at the same hospital as Sakura did. Everyone can tell that she is a rich girl, just looking her from her looks. She owns major hangout places, and Overdrive club where Jessie worked at is owned by her, making her Jessie’s boss.

Maria Jessica Rosemary
Race : French-Spanish
Age : 19
Ride : 2008 SE3P Mazda RX-8 type-S, 2008 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1
Alias : Blue Devil
Desc :
She is Steve’s love interest. She joins the crew same time as Sarah did, and attracts many boys’ attention. She is one of the sexiest girls in the class besides Yuki, Rena and Sarah. She is an adrenaline junkie, and loves dangerous sports like Yuki does. Another Mazda fan besides Souya.
After she got defeated by Keith, she changes her car to Corvette ZR-1. This time, her car is two times faster than her previous one. She swore to get revenge on Keith, but ended up getting beaten by Rei instead at his first test drive.
She broke up with Steve with no apparent reason, and looks like only both of them knows what is really going on.

Sarah Johnson
Race : American
Age : 19
Ride : 2008 NCEC Mazda MX-5
Alias : Road Star
Desc :
Clark’s love interest. She joins the crew the same time as Jessica did. She also ranked as one of the sexiest girls at class.


Other girls:

Ayamu Rika
Tarou’s girlfriend, who is also, acts as class representative.

Shimada Yuuri
Souya’s girlfriend. Recently transferred to Hikaru’s class so she can spend more time with Souya.

Tomoka Marie
She is a fragile girl and also Gonsuke’s girlfriend. Recently transferred to Hikaru’s class.

Narita Ayase
She is a strong willed girl with determination. She is Iwami’s girlfriend. Recently transferred to Hikaru’s class.

Niiyama Sako
She is a shy girl who always hides her true feelings. She is Yamada’s girlfriend. Recently transferred to Hikaru’s class.

Sena Asuka
The prodigy girl Aya and Claire befriended in the past. Because of her experience over her parents lost, she traumatized and almost commits a suicide. She joins the police in attempt to clean the streets from the street racers. She hates every street racer and will not stop until they are wiped off from this world. Hot headed, hard headed, and fiery-tempered, this girl always leads a horde of trouble whenever she is around, mostly because of conflict with her personality.

Murayama Yue
Teacher in Hikaru’s class. With her sexy looks, and mature attitude, she easily gets Hikaru’s attention. She already has a fiancé, who acts as the owner of the grocery store and also the leader of Japanese Exotics team. She married Kaoru secretly and without any wedding ceremony, to avoid any intervention from her parents.

Bernadette Melissa Ranovich
She works as the new English teacher at Hikaru and the others’ class. She is now Keith’s girlfriend, and the two of them does the relationship secretly.

Matsuda Yayoi
Her maiden name is Nakamura Yayoi and she is Satoshi’s wife. Her family owns a big hospital in Tokyo, so she’s came from rich family. She is a very skilled doctor, and she is the one who helped Steve when he’s injured. She has two children from her marriage to Satoshi.

Takahashi Natsume
Her maiden name is Kirita Natsume and she is Kenjou’s wife. They are newlywed couple and right now she is pregnant two months old. She is a very kind person and loving sister figure, just like Seno. She and Kenjou has a long relationship with one of RJ7 member, who is Kenjou’s ex-girlfriend; Naoko Haruna.

Hasegawa Rena
After becoming Moriyama’s girlfriend, Rena is also affected by his behavior. The sweet and kind girl is no more- all that’s left is another RJ7 pawn.

Friends and Rivals teams

Fujima Scott - Japanese Hawaiian
He’s a friend of Steve and being a computer geek, he knows how to tune an engine. He is the one, who taught Steve of E.C.U. tuning, and he may not look like one, but he is a great driver, with a soul of Japanese racing: Drift. He is eager to meet Sora, and will do anything to get him go to United States. He is rich, and he shows it with a lot of cars collection and showroom he owns.

Inoue Shin
He’s a well known tuner of GT-R on UK. He used to drive a black R34 V-spec but nowadays he drives silver R35. He and Bernard know each other from way back, though he didn’t explain how or when the two actually meet. He seemed to know there is something strange going on at the Zele dealership regarding Sora and the used BNR34 V-spec II he slept in.

Martin Langford
He is Keith’s uncle and the owner of Langford Auto Repairs. He works as college teacher at weekdays and mechanic at weekend. He and his wife; Erica always treats Keith like their own son.

Erica Langford
She is Keith’s aunt, and wife of Martin. She is very kind and caring toward Keith, as if he is her son.

Mustafa Rasyid
Kind and gentle taxi driver Rei meets in Japan. He always helped Rei in his street racing career and always guides Rei to be a better man. He and his family move to Japan to search for better life after Iraqi war. His other work is to teach as an instructor for ceramic workshop at his house.

Yuuta Kojiro - GT-R Mechanic
One of the best mechanics for GT-R. He rides R34 once, until he got into accident, involving Kaoru. Despite his broken left leg, he never really hates Kaoru for what he’s done. He only wanted to show to everyone that he is the best for GT-Rs. The owner of Kojiro’s Speed which is the hanging place for the team. After Sora joins the HSSR team, he gives him the ultimate GT-R which is owned by his wife. He even goes as far as operating his left leg to battle against him. All of them are intended to test Sora’s capabilities as a GT-R driver. He quits after his battle with Sora, because Kamiya is pregnant with their child.

Yuuta Kamiya
She is wife of Kojiro and she is a great GT-R tuner for electronics settings. She is the original owner of Sora’s blue Z-tune, and she is happily hand the car over to him, knowing Sora takes good care of her car. Her pregnancy is Kojiro’s main reason he quits street racing.

Yuuta Tomoyama - The manager
He’s the manager of Hikaru and Gonsuke’s place of work. His calm manner and wise attitude sometimes help Hikaru and the others achieve their best.

Eva Lester
She is the wife of Bernard. Even though she is so stingy to Rei, all she wanted is for Rei to be improved. She is pregnant, and that becomes Bernard’s reason to quit from the racing world.

Mikami Rei - Musashi
The runaway member of High School Street Racer. He elopes with Hikaru’s sister, acquiring the enmity of his fellow teammates. He returns not long after, only to see who goes in to replace his position in the team, as well as to visit his old friends.

Mikami Seno - Purple Shadow
She is Hikaru’s sister and also the ex-leader of NFS team (now known as Racing Queens). She is right now engaged with Rei, and she acquires his surname. It is unknown where did her GT-R goes after she went to United States.

Kamata Touji - Wild Beast - leader of Wild Beast team
A bearded man with long hair and always wearing his Oakley sunglasses. He is the leader of Wild Beast team and one of senior members in Mid Night Club. In early days, he trains Satoshi, Kenjou, and Kaoru as apprentices. After major street racers arrestment few weeks ago, Satoshi, Kenjou, and Kaoru decided to join his team, giving him and his team a great morale boost.

Moriyama Tatsu - Red 3GT - leader of Speedster team
He became Rena’s boyfriend recently. He hates Hikaru so much, and will try anything to makes him suffer. He is one of junior member of RJ7, and the leader of Speedster team.

Kamui Homura - Black Inferno
He is the boyfriend of Hibana and the new leader of Japanese Exotics. He is trained personally by Kaoru and he is a formidable street racer on the team. He always gets what he wanted, and he is willing to sacrifice anything, like losing to Steve purposely just to battle against Sora.

Adam Williams - Okami
He is an American that drives N1 GT-R and he has a long history with Hikaru and Rei. Even though he is a westerner, he loves GT-R more than any other car in the world. He is known as Okami or wolf around Shutokou, and he is a friend of Kyo.

Fushida Kyo - Indigo Hurricane
A great tuner of GT-R and a mentor of Both Kamiya, and Kojiro. He is the original tuner of Okami that Adam drives, and he tuned Rei’s GT-R once. He also has a GT-R, but instead of R34, he owns R32 N1 GT-R.

Shania - Orange Rush
She is a friend of Adam and fellow driver of GT-R. She owns an orange black R33, also tuned by Kyo.

James Cross - Sergeant Cross
He’s a talented traffic police officer from United States, and he’s been relocated for a mission to Japan. He knew Sora from his studying days in Japan, making him hesitate to do his job to disband the street racing teams on Tokyo. Even though he’s not a street racer, he’s a great driver with his jet black Z06 Corvette.

Akiyama Daiki - The Prince of Racing
He is the mentor of Sora who drives a silver 350Z and he is the owner of Akiyama racing school. He is the team manager and planner of the group Team Japan. He also hosts practice sessions, provides the stuff since he is rich, and he has the most links and connections to many in the racing industry. He is formerly associated with a local team from Japan's Mie prefecture: Team Midnight Masters - the fastest street racing team in Mie prefecture. Nowadays he is busy honing the skills of the new generation that he's manages.

Tsuchiya Seiji
He is the driver of Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8 and Lancer Evolution 9 that Sora accidentally passed through when he is chasing the Z and the Evo himself. Not much known about him, but he is the fierce rival of Akiyama Daiki from back in the day.

Kitsumoro Tomogashi - Gunma's 34
He is another Z-tune driver that Sora meets on Daikoku-Futo. Just like Akiyama, he possesses great skill and talent as street racer. His racing ability is exceptionable; most claim it like a God's - not entirely but his determination to succeed proves his worth. He declines this fact and goes about his life as a street racer in doubt. He’s been participating in many legal racing events made him one of the best people that associated with Akiyama.

Nadeshiko Kasumi
She is Tomo's prime interest and cares for Tomo the most of all. She lost her parents at an early age and lived only with her guardian until she was able to understand what life is and what is needed to survive. By graduation, she resigned just to stay with Tomo. Now, the muse of the Team Japan, she could stay with him longer. She claims to be 20 but her attractive figure and face says otherwise; pretty younger than 20. She always finds a way to help Tomo out no matter what the problem is. She is more like a big sister to Tomo than a lover but they are able to reciprocate the love they have.

Yamazaki Raymond - Lightning Angel
An incredibly wealthy street racer, from an Industrialist, American company owner family, Raymond has been racing on the Wangan strip for nearly 7 years, and throughout the years, he has only lost one race, against Daiki Akiyama. A Wangan legend in his right, The Lightning Angel, is a gifted racer who wants nothing more but victory, victory, and even more victory. He is a cool, calm, and collected person, who drives a new Nissan GT-R, the first one of the factory line, using his father's connections and influence. Using said influence, he was also able to obtain tuning parts for the car, although they are in the developmental stages for the GT 500 race. Despite being incredibly wealthy, he is neither snobbish nor arrogant, although slightly cocky when it comes to racing.

Yagami Kei - The Jet
A prodigy in both street and circuit racing. He drives an NA2 Honda NSX type-R, silver in color. Not much is known about this guy except that he is as skilled as Sora and Steve. He is great fighter with close quarter combat technique, which was proven with his skill in taking down six armed Yakuza member, with a survival knife. A very proficient man in firearms and an expert in explosives. He is the one responsible for taking down two of the most dangerous RJ7 members; Mr. Boxer and Lexus simultaneously in front of the team. He helped Keith on the battle against the Racing Queens by ‘unintentionally’ provoking the Slashing Stars and lured the police cars onto her. He is also the one responsible for defeating Yuuya, thereby disbanding RJ7 and saves Cross from captivity.

The Racing Queens
They are the legendary team on Japan, which is formed after the Mid Night Club disbands. Before the reformation, their name is NFS team.

Amano Yuki - Black Phantom - leader
She inherits the leadership of the team after Seno, the previous leader ran off with Rei, the Musashi. She renamed the team to the Racing Queens, since all of the members of the team are now woman.

Atsuno Sakura - Violet Flower - vice-leader
She joins Yuki’s team to fill in the empty position after the team’s reformation. Her love of the street racing world is one of the main reason she joins the team.

Kagari Hibana - Flying F
She joins Yuki’s team alongside Sakura. Her motivation of joining is not only for her love on street racing world, but also to become more and more popular. She also does it to relieve her stress from her work.

Haruka Itsumi - Three Diamonds
The owner of place where Hikaru buys his GT-R. She is one of the racing queens in her racing days with her 3000GT along with Seno and Ayumi.

Sumire Ayumi - Slashing Stars
The owner of Nissan’s garage where Hikaru inspects his GT-R for the first time. Even though she has a Nissan’s garage, she drives a Subaru Impreza. She’s one of the racing queens with Seno and Itsumi.

The Three Kings
This is the team that Bernard and the two other kings formed after the major street racers arrestment.

Bernard Lester - Sky King
American man and he previously drive a N1 GT-R, this time he drives faster and better R35. He reigns as the Sky King, because he’s good in handling Skylines. Sora already defeats him at Suzuka and succeeds the title from him.

Jonathan Burton - Grip King
He is a friend of Bernard and Eliah. After driving a Subaru Impreza, he changes to SLR McLaren to improve his image as the Grip King.

Eliah Jones - Drift King
Friend of Bernard and Jonathan. He drives Honda NSX before and changes to SRT-10, which is so called drifting machine by Samuel Hubinette. He reigns as Drift King with his mad skill behind the wheel.

RJ7 - Real Japan Seven team
They are one of the most feared street racers with dangerous reputation for every members of the team.

Musashi Yuuya - Godzilla - leader
The leader of RJ7 with R32 GT-R and he’s one of the most feared street racers in Japan. His calm and unpredictable behavior is very disturbing for his entire foe.

Oyama Souji - Lexus - vice-leader
The vice-leader of RJ7 who drives Lexus IS-F. He has calm manner and always think twice before acting.

Sagara Tsugumi - Over Rev
The pro drifter of RJ7 who drives S15 Nissan Silvia. She hates everything that has connections with mechanic, which is her previous boyfriend’s work.

Naoko Haruna - No.9
Childish and cocky member of RJ7 who drives Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. She is Moriyama’s cousin, and she is the one who plots Hikaru’s ‘little’ accident. She has been defeated by Hikaru, and she ended up getting rammed by a passing truck.

Uehara Natsumi - Apple
She is very mature member of RJ7 who drives a Honda NSX. She is the one who always looks after the team members, especially Haruna and Tsugumi. She has been defeated by Rei on a rainy battle and she ended up crashed to Ginza bridge pier, damaging her car entirely.

Tamashiro Shin - 7th Heaven
Easy going member of RJ7 who rides an RX-7. His carefree attitude and handsome look is making him really famous with the girls.

Yoshimasa Takeshi - Mr. Boxer
Bearded old man and one of the founding members of RJ7 who rides a Subaru Impreza. His wise attitude is what makes most of his foe feared him.

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Jul 26 2010, 09:04 PM

MOAAAAR!!!!!! THIS IS EPIC!
When's RPM 24 coming out?

It's been posted just now... check it out! Oh, don't forget to leave a comment, okay?

The WME writing god has posted *bows down to REX* and the yakuzas are getting involved here! MOAR!!!!!

^^ nice nice hehehe love the story line

Here is the 25th RPM, which focuses to our mysterious man and his full capability... oh yeah, I also put the characters list on previous post... and correct some of the mistakes on previous RPM... silly me.

Anyways, enjoy and don't forget to drop your comment

RPM 25: The One Loose End

The police officers interviewed a lot of people on spectators’ area and the pit lane. The process takes the toll on their time, pushing back the time schedule of the event. “And that’s about all I know” Hikaru said to the police

“So you’re saying an unknown racer shoots them on the crotch and takes out six other goons with his bare hand and a survival knife?” one of the police officers asked, “If he does, then he must’ve good with guns and knife, as well as explosives”

“Yeah!” Gonsuke added, “We’ve been telling you that all the time”

“Sir, we’ve already extracted the wounded drives on the track and put them on an ambulance” said a paramedic

“Finally we got the last two member of RJ7” said another police officer

“Yes indeed… whoever that man was, we owe him big time. Alright… we have gathered enough explanation from the eye witnesses” Cross said, “Let’s go back to Tokyo and process these guys”

Cross feels very happy and satisfied, knowing that his case is progressing better then he ever hoped it would be. He stared at Sora, Aya, and Claire, while they stare back at him also. They need to play it smooth and cool, since no one knew about their mutual relation. “You all be good now…” he said before he left. Jessie doesn’t show up, since she can't waltz around in front of them and explain to them that she’s been working with the police all along. The others are resting their mind and body, since all of them just experiencing an amazingly scary circumstance. Their body still trembles from the fear and they feel very scared. Steve on the other hand, questions the runaway hero from earlier scene. “What’s up?” Hikaru asked

“I just remembered that NSX type-R didn’t have a power steering… he must’ve installed one to help its handling” Steve wheezed, “Nevertheless, we owe that dude our thanks for saving our assess”

“Yeah… indeed we are” Sora leaned his back on the pit wall

After the police officers leave, the judges decided that team HSSR wins by default since team Just for Fun withdraws from the competition on the last minute. After they receive the trophy and award money, they drives back immediately to the hotel. After they checked in and went into their rooms, Cross contacted Sora, Aya, and Claire, telling that the one who sends the Yakuza to Sendai is none other than Musashi Yuuya himself. Now that his goons are captured, he walks away from the responsibility by drives off to an unknown location… probably went into hiding and prepares his own plan for revenge and he might resort to killing the guys. He specifically warned Claire and Aya to watch the boys even carefully, since Yuuya is now alone and he is very deadly when he is cornered. However, little does they know that the one who is in danger is none other than Cross himself, since he is so close to wrap everything up. After all of them takes a bath and clean themselves, all of the boys are waiting at the cafeteria for the girls to go someplace beautiful to help them forget the bad experience they had today. Tomoyo and Tomoya decided to go ahead and went back to Tokyo, mainly to report their great achievement and bringing back the trophy to the school’s trophy cabinet. “Glad the police did showed up when we need them the most” Souya said

“Yeah… maybe the police already trails those two from the beginning” Sora shrugs, “They just wait around to lure them to do something stupid, so they could arrest them”

“That explains why they managed to get here fast” Steve nodded in agreement

“We all owe it to the Jet” Clark said

“Speaking of him, why did he run away and left like a wind? He’s the hero after all” Iwami asked

“You can think this through… I’ll even give you the clues- a racer with a gun, sharp looking survival knife, grenades and explosives, and on a legal circuit event… add it up with police officers” Keith shrugs

“Equals to problem and arrest” Tarou continues, “Keith’s right…”

“He has to avoid the risk of getting caught, since he might be carrying a gun and explosives without any legal permit” Yamada adds

“Will we see him again? I’d like to say thank you” Gonsuke frowns

“I doubt it… he’s not from around here” Hikaru sighed, “He’s of a mixed ethnicity, since his eyes are grey in color… maybe he’s here on vacation or something? When the things gone wrong, it would be best for him to get out of Japan as soon as he can”

They were wrong. The guy they talked about is at Gunma, checking the scenes of local street drifting around on Haruna Mountain. Well whoever he was, he didn’t care or feels threatened with what just happened earlier today, even though he was the one who handles everything- the dirty jobs of taking on the Yakuza. As the girls are done with their ‘thing’, all of them are ready to check up on the night sceneries around supposedly the greenest city in the entire Japan. “Ready to go?” Yuki asked

“Sure thing” Hikaru said, “Let’s go, everyone”

All of them decided to eat something from the local delicacies before they head out to do the sightseeing. With their cars, they are ready to set out and do the trip around the City.

(Missing Perspective by Shimomura Yoko - Parasite Eve Original Soundtracks)

As explained on the 7th RPM, Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tohoku (northeast) region. The city was founded in 1600 by the daimyo Date Masamune, and is well known by its nickname, the "City of Trees". There are about 60 Zelkova trees on Jouzenji Dori and Aoba Dori. And by the nickname and the trees, supposedly this city is the greenest city in whole Japan.

All of them visit Aobayama hills, taking pictures at Otamaya-bashi Bridge, watching fireworks at Hirose-gawa River, and even in the front of Sendai city hall. After fed up with taking pictures of his GT-R, he went to Dainenji, and the last of them is Saikachi Gawa. In Sendai, they offer the best scenery blend of nature and urban city. After satisfied looking around the city, all of them head out to Atago Shrine to play around at the local winter festival held, which is being held there.
Sora and Steve decided to compete at the toy shooting range, while Hikaru and Keith tries to catch gold fish with paper net. The others decided to stick around and cheers for them, as well as buying a lot of festive foods, masks, and gifts.

Satisfied and tired after playing around all of them drives back to the hotel to get some rest. Later that night, around eight P.M., Sora can't sleep for some reason. He gets up and goes downstairs to get a cup of coffee.

At the cafeteria downstairs, he sits on an empty chair and saw a married couple on a honeymoon, eating cake together. He can't help but to wonder one thing; will he experience it one day with his girlfriend Aya? “Oh, Sora…” Aya said

Hearing her voice from behind his back startled him, especially when he just think about her and him being together at this chilly night. “Oh, you startled me” Sora replied. “What’s up?” she asked again

“Ah… I can't sleep for an unknown reason” Sora answered lightly, “Want to look around town with me?”

“Sure… I'm just about to ask you the same thing” she nodded

“Good… ah… what should we do?” Sora wondered

When he looked at his arm, he wears the blue jacket Aya gave him the other day. That gives him an idea. “I want to give you something in return for this blue jacket” Sora said, “Let’s go”

“Are you sure? You don’t have to do that, you know” Aya said

Nevertheless, he takes her hand and leads her to the underground parking lot. Both of them get into the blue car and drives out of the parking lot. Now a strange thing happened to him. He wanted to give her something in exchange, but he didn’t know what to give him. Talk about being pathetic…
“What should I give you?” he thought

Aya can only smile to her boyfriend as she stares at the window. One particular shop catches her sapphire eyes; jewelry store for couples. She then remembered something from her childhood. “Mother… what is that necklace? That is very beautiful” said little Aya

Her mother smiled softly to her and answered her daughter’s question happily. “Your father and I always have a pair of necklace, with our name initials carved onto them. That way, we will always remember and love each other, no matter what happened”

With that in her mind, she pointed out the store to Sora. “Jewelry store for couple? That’s not a bad idea” Sora nodded

He parks on the side of the road and the two gets off from the car. “Welcome” said the shop attendant

“Hi… I would like to get something here for me and my girlfriend” Sora replied, “What would you like, Aya?”

“First… I want that platinum bracelets” Aya said, “Can I try those, please?”

With the winning money and some of his savings on his wallet, he doesn’t care how much it would cost him, as long as his girlfriend feels happy. “I’ll take these” Aya said, “And… I want a pair of that necklace with that small platinum plate”

“Oh… it looks good” Sora said

“Yeah… can you carve the initial of our names on its back?”

“Certainly… what would you like to be carved?” the attendant asks. Aya replied with a smile to him, “Letter A for him… and letter S for me”

Sora smiled back to her and wheezed happily. He then saw something else on the glass display; a pair of platinum rings. It looks simple yet elegant enough to stand out from the rest. “Excuse me… can I have that, please?”

Aya saw what he pointed on the glass display and she blushed in embarrassment. What he pointed at is a pair of wedding ring. “Are you sure you want this for the two of you?” the other attendant asked. “Why not?” he asked back, “It’s like… an early proposal for a wedding”

Hearing those words spills from his mouth, Aya lowers her head and she started to shivered. Sora wonders whether something was wrong with her and started to worry. “Aya? What’s wrong?” he said. “Nothing” she said as he smiled happily with tears on her face, “I just felt really lucky to be alive and met you”

Sora felt numb on his feet. He walked towards Aya and hugs her tight, in front of the entire shop. “Don’t cry, Aya…” Sora said, “I love you so, and whatever makes you happy, I’ll do it for you”

The entire shop started to feels really happy and cried for their happiness. All of the visitors of the shop felt the same way and gives them a huge applause. “He’s an inspiring young man” said one of the male visitors, “I felt really brave to propose to you now”

“Her life as a woman is complete!” said a female visitor

“Sir… do you want to carve something to the rings?” the attendant asked

“I’ll always love thee” Sora said with a big smile on his face

Suddenly his entire friend showed up inside the shop… in tears. His face started to turn as red as morning sun. All of his female friend gather around Aya, while the males gather around Sora. “Wha?! How do you know we’re here?!”

“Waaaaah! Sora… please take care of my lovely Aya” Claire said. “Ghe, why are you crying?” Steve asked before his feet are trampled by Claire

“You got balls, kid” Souya pats his shoulder, “Please take care of my friend Sora”

“Please be patient with Aya…” Yuuri smiled

“You are perfect for each other” Marie said

“I pray for your health and I pray that you will have a lot of healthy kids!” Gonsuke added

“Hey, stop it! He’ll die in embarrassment” Tarou laughs

“Any priest around here?” Hikaru asked

“No!” Sora yelled

“Awwww, look at him” Rika giggled

“Don’t be shy, Sora… hehehe” Yuki added

“Let’s hold a bachelor party for Sora!” Clark hissed

“And for Aya!” Sarah continued

“What about wedding invitations?” Keith asked. “Don’t forget the guest list” Yamada added. “Oh, oh… food list!” Iwami said

“We’ll take care of it” Melissa nodded happily, “Right, Sako, Ayase?”

“Yes, ma’am!” Sako and Ayase nodded respectively

Sora feels very dizzy and his head started to feels light and blank. “Uh-oh!” Steve said, “Enough with the teasing!”

“His ECU overheats!” Hikaru said

Sora passed out with a smoke, coming out of his head. All of his friend can't help it but to laugh to see his behavior. Aya giggled lightly as she walks toward him and tries to wake him up. Half an hour later, Sora and the others returns to the hotel and get some rest. This time, he feels really satisfied because he gives something for his girlfriend and makes her happy. Every time he closes his eyes, he remembers her beautiful blue eyes, staring at him. He gets out his mobile phone and plays Hiroki Wada’s Mystic Eyes from Vision of Escaflowne as he sings along with it.

Tsuki no mukou aoi searchlight… kasanaru
Totsuzen maiorita angel
Sou kimi wa dare?
Ima unmei no tobira ga hiraku
So just… fall in love
Munasawagi suru kono shunkan wo… nogasanai
Don’t stop, baby

Yake-sou na kimi no mystic eyes
Mujaki na egao de… breaking down
Kimi dake ni hitomi no oku no eyes
Hatenai tabi wa hajimaru
Mou tomaranai mune no kodou
Kimi wo saratte yukitai

Oooh… oh baby…
It’s so easy… To love you

Yamikumo ni korogatte’ku day by day
Tsuyoki de kimagure na angel
Anadorenai
Dakedo kanjite guuzen ja nai
Motto heart to heart
Kogoeta yume wo atatameaeru futari nara
All right, baby

Nanimokamo tokasu mystic eyes
Suikomarete-yuku time and time
Boku dake ga hitomi no naka ni crush
Eien no ai ni mukatte
Hikari yori mo hayaku hashire
Kimi wo mamotte yuku tame ni

Nee kikoeru
Futari no mirai
Umarekawaru oto ga
Oooh

Moeagare kimi no mystic eyes
Hontou no egao de touch my heart
Kimi dake ni hitomi no oku no eyes
Yasashii kiss ni idakare
Mou tomaranai mune no kodou
Kimi no saratte yuku kara

Meanwhile, somewhere at Haruna mountain…

(Speedy Speed Boy by Marko Polo - Initial D Special Stage Original Soundtracks)

The silver NSX-R runs through the tenth corner of Haruna’s mountain pass from outside lane. The driver slides its tail with minimal angle for drift, since the inside lane is occupied by an orange R32 GT-R. “There is no way you can pass me from outside!” said the driver of the R32

“You really think your ATTESA E-TS will save you from your understeer tendency?” he grins, “Dream on, man!”

As the R32 started to understeers, the silver NSX-R behind it changes its lane from outside to inside. “Damn! I understeered on crucial moment!” said the R32 driver. “You give me the front position, so I won't hold back anymore and outrun you right away!”

The silver NSX-R jets through the clear road and gradually leaves the GT-R behind it. “That’s one Chaser and three GT-Rs in a day… no, make it two since the first one in today is an exceptional masterpiece”

After he manages to outrun his opponent, he stops his car at the side of the finish line. He leaned his back on the silver car and waits for his opponent to show up with his winning money. “Pleasure doing business” he said as he grabs the $5,000 he won, “You know, racing in Japan is not so bad after all… I can make $15,000. Thank you Lord, for the grace Thee has given me today… even though I skipped going to church this week because of the Red Bull competition, I will make it up to You on the next mass next week”

Well what do you know? The Jet seemed to be a religious man after all… well people can see it clearly from the small gold on his neck and two bracelets on his right hand; Buddhist bracelet made out of wood and purple colored WWJD fabric bracelet. All he wanted was to see how local drifters shows off their skill, but instead some of them are stupid enough to challenge him for battle… the Jet won't turn down when he’s been offered money, and he is not a picky guy; whether a guy with Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, or Toyota challenges him, he will battles them- with a reasonable amount of money, of course…
“Well… I’d best go back to the inn and get some rest…” he said, “It’s been a tiring day for me”

He drives back to the foot of the mountain as fast as he can, before his fatigue catches up with him.

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Three days has passed since the events on Sendai circuit. Nothing was heard about Yuuya, since major arrest of Yakuza members he sent to wreak havoc at Sendai. Morning mist came down from the top to the base of mountain, especially the inn where the Jet hides himself. He is sipping his morning orange juice at the inn’s cafeteria when he reads the local newspaper regarding the further investigation of the Yakuza swarm on Sendai. He breathes slowly as he tried to skim it. “This just in… the investigation of the attacks on Sendai circuit where the Red Bull contest is held, has to be suspended since James Cross, the man in charge of the investigation went missing for an unknown reason”

Hearing that, Jet quickly flips the page and grabs the remote of the TV to increase the volume. “The Metro Police Department has done a lot of search to locate this very man, but nothing has prevail” said the newscaster, “They received a letter from unknown sender, saying that the Interpol needs to prepare $1,000,000 if they wants to see Cross alive”

“We live in a dangerous time, huh?” said the cook on the café. Jet grins and lets out a small laugh. “We are… this world is filled with a lot of dangerous people” he said, “We should do our best not to be involved with people like that. Thanks for the breakfast”

His iPhone suddenly rang. When he takes a look at it, his friend called- it’s the same person from the other day. He gets out of the cafeteria to talk privately with the caller. “You’ve seen the news on NHK?” the caller asked. The Jet sighed a bit and replied flatly. “I did… why?” the Jet asks. The unknown caller immediately breaks down the information he has so far. “James Cross- born in Canada… goes to Aomori to study on criminology” he explained, “That Sky King… he comes from Aomori and I guess it’s safe to say the two know each other from that time

Looks like the Sky King is an acquaintance of the kidnapped Interpol Officer. Talk about a surprise. “Looks like you overdid it by meddling with those Yakuza, man” he exhaled. The Jet replied, sounded a bit annoyed, “If I left them alone, they wouldn’t survive since they only have one thing in their mind; the competition at Sendai… there is no way they would raise a hand to kick their asses, since it would disqualify them”

“That’s why I need you to make it up and handle the situation”

Jet sighed lightly, “I’ll see what I can do”

For fifteen minutes, Jet cross his arms and wanders around, looking for any ideas that might work on this kind of situation. After he saw a torn balloon, he has something in his mind that might just work. He calls his friend once more, telling what he would do to repair this mess. “I’ll do it… I also want to try a new invention that I’ve been thinking for awhile”

“Okay… do it” the man nods

The Jet gets back to the cafeteria and approach the cook for information about certain materials he might needed. “Oh yeah, sir… is there any local store that sell a small syringe, eggs, and paintballs?”

“The local store just down the hill might have the tools you need” he said again, “Why would you need that?”

“The syringe is for my niece who likes to play as doctors… the paintball is for my nephew who likes to play with air guns… the eggs is for their parents” he shrugs, “Thank you for the information… I’ll drop around as soon as I can”

As he left from the cafeteria, the newscaster continued to read the letter. “The drop point for the money is at Tokyo Disneyland tonight on 10 P.M. and is he sees a single police car on the scene, he will kill Cross”

Jet puts on his black jacket and walks out of the inn. His face however, didn’t seem very happy with what he just heard from the news. “I thought Yakuza is all about honor and respect… where is the honor from kidnapping a police officer? Where is the respect of sending a letter with an unknown address?”

What he needs to prepare is a weapon of deception. There will be a swarm of cops on the highway as the kidnapper makes his run, so he will need everything he can invent to make it happen. “Excuse me… I’d like to buy a syringe, some eggs, and soft paintballs” he said to the shop keeper

“Sure thing”

What would he do with those? Anyways as he hurries on back to the inn, he quickly cleans his table and puts all the stuff he bought on top of it. “Okay… this is going to take awhile, but nevertheless it’s going to works just fine” he said as he cracks the egg

Since he is busy and it will take awhile, let us leave him for a bit and focus on our characters. Sora, Steve, Yamada, and Iwami are working at the gas station right now. They are so busy that they didn’t have any time to watch the news, let alone knowing what happened to Cross. “Hey… tonight’s going to hot!” Iwami said to Steve

“Yeah… I’m sure it will” Steve nodded, “Finally… we got a shot to defeat Racing Queens”

“I won't be racing tonight, since I already done my part two weeks ago” Sora nodded, “Good luck to all of you, even though I’m still going to watch”

“I wonder what will happen next to RJ7…” Yamada thought aloud, “I hope the leader is captured in no time”

“Nah, who cares about that- let the police do their work. We’re fine as long we’re not on the radars of the police” Steve shrugs without any care. Sora exhaled lightly and couldn’t agree more. “Yeah… if we beat the Racing Queens… we’re the best on Tokyo… or something like that”

“That is a good start… the best in Tokyo” Iwami laughs

Suddenly, Hikaru showed up to the station… doesn’t he worked at the restaurant at these times? “Hey, full tank high octane, please” he said, “What’s up guys?”

“You’re supposed to work at the restaurant right now… what’re you doing here?” Sora asked as he opens up the fuel lid

“The restaurant is closed for today… what if we take a look at tonight’s battle spot?” he asked

“Our shift will be over soon…” Steve said, “Why not? I'm sure it will be an advantage for us to see it beforehand”

“Great… after I'm done filling, I’ll park over there and wait for you guys” he nods

After half an hour of waiting, all of the boys are done with their shift. Hikaru is at the minimart of the gas station as he reads a book about Honda NSX. After he reads it thoroughly, he decided to buy it since the content has an interesting material for adding his knowledge about modifying his NSX-R. “Thanks for waiting” Yamada smiled, “Where is the battle place?”

“I will start from Shidome junction and battle Yuki at C1 for one lap and finish at Tatsumi junction… Steve will start at Tatsumi junction and battle Hibana at New Belt Line for a lap and end at West Ooi junction” he explained, “Then Tarou will start at West Ooi junction and battle Itsumi at Yokohane line for a quick sprint, ending at Daikoku-Futo… and lastly Keith will battle Ayumi from Daikoku-Futo at Wangan line to East Ooi… that’s it”

“Heeh… relay race, huh?” Sora said, “Then if you guys win, it’ll be a one hit swoop”

“One more thing… it’s going to be a timed-relay race… our time will be summed up against theirs…” Hikaru added, “It’s going to be the toughest battle we’ll ever had”

“Have faith…” Steve exhaled lightly, “We will triumph”

Few hours after sundown, the Jet is ready with his ingredients. As he takes a look at his Luminox F16 Fighting Eagle Chronograph wristwatch and it shows 8.10 P.M. “Looks like I need more practice on what I should do to make it efficient next time… hopefully this batch will work just fine, so I can continue it into the next step”

What he prepares was a strange colored paintball on his desk. He takes out his other gun from his weapon bag- a M1911 Springfield Operator, equipped with extended barrel and surefire flashlight attachment. “A bit heavier than my USP and even though this gun only has seven bullets, it provides a better punch than USP” he thought. He takes a bath and wears his casual clothes, left chest harness for his knife under his black jacket. He then puts a small bag onto the passenger side of his car and went to the cafeteria to get something light to be eaten before he underwent this mission. “Going off somewhere, mister?” The cook asked. The man in question answered under his breath with a light grin on his face “Yeah… something like that”

“Will you come back by tomorrow morning? I will cook you something even nicer for the breakfast” the cook ask once again. Without even a slight hesitation on his voice, he responded lightly, “Sure… I’ll be back before you know it. You cook well, old man”

After he pays for the food, he went back to the table and finishes it. Before he goes out, he sips his warm black coffee to freshen his mind and body. “Well… I'm off for now” he said to the cook

“Take care” the cook said to him with a huge smile on his face

Back to the team, Sora is waiting for Steve at West Ooi. The battle has begun from 9 PM and has been going on for some time and as far as the battle goes, the Racing Queens still has the upper hand on this battle… “I guess Hikaru’s newly tuned NA1 still has a long way to go” Sora thought aloud. Tarou nodded and replied nervously, “Yeah… I hope Steve, Keith, and I can do it better”

The Racing Queens proved their existence for the past years, dominating the street racing world on Tokyo without the police on their radar… that is something you could call a great achievement. “Sora, I’m at the tunnel” Steve said, “Tarou, get ready to roll!”

“Okay!” Tarou said as he gets into his car and ignites the engine, “Where is Hibana-sensei?”

“I managed to squeeze the gap further for now… every second I can cut is better than nothing. Just get ready, leave the rest up to me” Steve continued

“How is it going, Hibana?” Itsumi asked

“Not bad… the new setting feels a bit different, though. I’m not used to it yet, that’s why I kind of lagged on the second half of this race” she explained

“I see… you’ve done pretty well. Leave the rest up to me” Itsumi nods

Few minutes later, Steve rolled in at Ooi and that is the cue for Tarou to go. He launches his car as quickly as he can out of the parking area to lengthen the gap Steve gave him from Itsumi. “Run, man! Run!” Steve yelled

Hibana however, showed up not long after. She rolled into the parking area, handing over the sprint to Itsumi. Itsumi leaves the area in high pace, matching Tarou’s. The battle will be a tight one; even tighter than any team they ever faced before. “How is it?” Sora asked

“I’d say… It went pretty well” Steve nodded, “I’ve done my part as best as I could… now it’s up to Tarou and Keith to finish the job. Now if you would excuse me, I will go to East Ooi now”

Steve rolled out of the parking area, when Sora gets into his blue car. A silver NA2 suddenly rolled into the area and parked beside the blue Z-tune. The driver of the silver car gets off and approaches the blue car. The driver of the blue car didn’t have any choice but to do the same as well. “Did you win?” the Jet asked. Sora replied lightly with a sigh, “More or less… why did you help us? What is your intention? Why did you fight them and gets disqualified in our place?”

“Well… I didn’t have any reason to do it, let alone any intention on my simple head. I knew that you guys would probably get killed if I leave all of you alone, so I decided to step in” Jet replied flatly

“How do you know that I was going to wait over here?”

“Hm? Easy… you will always sticks with Red Lizard since the two of you are the edges of this very team” he answered, “Besides, you guys are not a small team anymore; I can get the details by asking around the people on the Mobil 1 gas station. Timed relay race for the team… Hikaru from Shiodome to Tatsumi, Steve from Tatsumi to here, Tarou from here to Daikoku and Keith from Daikoku to East Ooi… simple as that”

He almost forgotten the reason he came here; his Interpol friend who is held captive right now. “Oh yeah, have you seen the news this morning?”

Sora feels puzzled. What is this guy saying?
“Pardon?” he tries to confirm the question. “I see… probably been busy with part time job, huh? No matter, I can show you right here right now”

Jet gets out his iPhone and connects to internet via his mobile network. He logs into Youtube and chose the video of NHK news from this morning. “Here…”

He showed it to Sora and he gasped in surprise. “What is this?!”

“Calm down and keep your voice down! Do you want your friend find out that you’ve befriended an Interpol police officer?” the Jet wheezed, “Listen to me! I create this mess and I will repair it and handle it. Just act like nothing happens and stay with your friends! Got it?”

Sora inhaled and tries to regain his composure. “Okay… can I trust you?” he asked

“If you don’t want to, then don’t” he replies, “Go to East Ooi before your friends suspects something. Go!”

Sora gets back to his car and started to drive to East Ooi and trust the life of his friend to a stranger. A stranger that helped he and his team three days ago… he still had his doubts about whether he should trust him or not. The Jet knows it but he didn’t care anyways- he is still going to do it either way. As Sora gets out of the parking area, Jet gets into his car and drives off to Tokyo Disneyland to trail his prey.

At the Disneyland, a lot of police officers in civilian clothes are seen in every direction of this cheerful place. Jet parks his car on the parking lot, located east of the main gate and gets into the crowded place. He sits at the chair near a tree as he opens a bottle of water and drinks it. He looks around for any sign of unordinary, since it will turn just as ugly as he imagined it would be. A man dropped a heavy bag near a trash can, just few hundred meters in beside him. Jet knew it was the money on the bag; therefore he sits still and lies in wait. Yuuya will come sooner or later. He takes a look at his watch and it 9.30 P.M. dead. He will make his move at any moment now. When he takes a look at the bag, a man is seen carrying the bag to the main gate- the police immediately moves in and apprehend the guy.

“Will it be this easy?” he wandered. Jet looks pretty bored. He gets out of the park and go back straight into his car. But the bag that man has contains no money inside it. That man is a decoy. The police started to panic and scours around the place for any suspicious person. As Jet gets into his car, a black GT-R is seen leaving the area in high pace. That is the guy.

He ignites the engine and follows the car. Sadly however, things are not as smoothly as he just thought. The police think the Jet is the one who has the bag, since he is leaving the place in hurry. “Hm… that Yuuya guy knew I was following him” he thought aloud, “That guy is indeed smart”

The sirens are heard and they are ready to catch the suspect. Jet knew it would come to this, that’s why he prepares something else for this. “Here you go!” he threw a can of flashbang grenade as he throws something else with his hand

As the grenade blows off, the blinding lights are stunning the police chasers. While they had no control of their car, the added something he threw sticks to their windshields, rendering it useless. “What the?! Wipers!” one of the officers said

The more they try to wipe it, the stickier it gets. What he uses is white egg, injected to paintballs. The egg white will provide the paint as a base that is impossible to be wiped off from the windshields. With their windshields completely covered with colored egg white, they crashed into each other and blocked the road. The crashed police cars got hit by the rest of the other cars, piling them on the center of the roads. “Hey, it worked pretty well” said the Jet as he carefully takes a look at his rearview mirror, “I will improve its formula next time”

With less police cars on his tail, he jets through the highway and followed his target. He can't be seen too close with the black GT-R, since the target will surely found out that he was chasing him. Yuuya was seen exiting off the Aqualine and went towards the center of Tokyo. Looks like he hid Cross around Haneda airport as he prepares his escape via airplane to someplace faraway. “That Yuuya guy already figures everything and sort those things out… genius” the Jet thought

The Jet saw two cars racing towards Haneda also; a white M3 and a grey Impreza… with the latter seen going through the heavy traffic with ease. The M3 however, suffers from the poor grip since it’s rear-wheel driven and its higher power acts more as a handicap rather than an advantage. “Hmm… serious NA tuning from the dry sound of that engine” the Jet thought, “He must’ve been one of the Sky King teammates… I better halt the progress of that Impreza ‘unintentionally’ and lure the police cars onto it” He sways his car to the left, almost hitting the aforementioned car. The driver of that grey Impreza is very upset with what he does. But that is not all of it; seeing the weird behavior and maneuver of that Subaru, the police decided to try and arrest the Impreza as well. Keith, who still in the back, slowly catches up and overtakes the Impreza swiftly, without alerting the police cars.

Seeing the white M3 has taken the lead, the Jet threw more of the egg-paintballs towards the windshield of the police cars. When he’s about to reach the exit towards Haneda airport, he cuts Ayumi’s lane accurately and exited at Haneda to take care of the business at hand. That sudden exit move towards Haneda completely surprised Ayumi and causing her to brakes hard and almost stalls the engine. She knew the NSX was only provoking her, so she would takes the challenge. She didn’t have any time to spare, though, since she already has a playmate for the night. She shifted the gear to first and chase the white M3 once more. “That should do enough to shift the advantage for them… okay, there is his car” he thought

Yuuya bribed the guard of the runaway and he must’ve been keeping Cross at one of those empty hangars. After the black GT-R passes the fence, he gets out of his car and opens one of the hangar and gets his car inside. Jet saw the hangar and gets off from his car, approaching the guard near the fence. Instead of talking his way through, he hits the guard from behind and opens the fence himself. He gets inside and keeps the gate opened for quick getaway. He takes a peek inside the hangar, seeing no one else is inside the hangar beside Cross and Yuuya.

Yuuya had a gun in his hand, pointing it at Cross’s head. If he were to storm his way in, he will probably get killed right on the spot. Time to improvise his plan. “No back door… side stairs for roof maintenance” he smiled

He ascends the stairs and makes his entry by descending from shelves, filled with piling spare parts of aero planes… or private jet God knows what. He carefully drops down without making any noise that might alerted Yuuya, causing him to act ruthlessly. “So? You’re going to kill me now?” Cross asked

“I am a man with honor! I will keep my end of bargain and let the police found you here… however, no one has follow me yet… so I guess you’re out of luck, eh Cross?” he smiled

He takes his katana and put the gun on the table beside Cross as he walk towards the hangar’s door. “This might be my chance” he thought

(Pleasant Intrigue by Sakuraba Motoi and Aoyama Hibiki - Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtracks)

He walks slowly yet steadily toward Cross. However, things didn’t go as smoothly as he planned. When he gets close enough, Yuuya turned his back and saw the Jet approaches the captive. “Who are you?!” he said as he rubs his hips. “That’s right… you put your gun here… how stupid of you to do that” the Jet grins

“Who are you?!” Cross asked

“Me? Let’s just say we have a mutual friend” he answered lightly

“Why are you here? Did you come here to rescue me?!”

“Not exactly… I'm here to tie up one loose end” he said coldly, “I’m the one that shoot his guys back at Sendai and because of me, all of this happened to you… So as a good citizen of Tokyo, I will deal with him and pass the ball over to you“

“Hoho… you are pretty confident with you skill, aren’t ya?” Yuuya laughs happily, “Why don’t you and me; have a duel? Sword with sword, hmm?”

“I prefer a gun… oh wait, you don’t have it, huh? What about knife?” he asked, “Do you have one?”

“I see… you are a scout” Yuuya nodded few times, “A man of honor; I like that… Sure, I’ll battle you with a knife” Yuuya dropped his katana and takes a knife from his hip. “I never thought that I will use this for a fight”

“That knife is brand new, huh?”

“It is… today will mark the first time it taste human blood” he grins, “Show me your skill, kid”

The Jet takes off his black jacket and puts it on the table. He then grabs the knife from his left chest harness and gets his stance ready. “Show me yours… I’ll finish you in three strikes… no, make it five”

“I’ll be done in one strike” Yuuya hissed

Yuuya run towards him as Jet gets ready to intercept him. When Yuuya is close enough to him, he tries to slash and stab the person in front of him. Jet quickly avoids the direction of the knife and as the man tried to stab him, he swiftly moves to the side of the hand and grabs his wrist, squeezing it tight before folds it to his back. “CQC!” Cross gasped

Jet hits his head with his left elbow few times, before he kicks the man, causing him to kiss the concrete. “That is one…” he smiled

“There won't be any second or third” Yuuya tries to stab him from close range

When the point of the knife misses him, Jet deflects Yuuya’s right arm to the side and punch him in the face with his left fist. Flinched, Yuuya steps back to regain his stance. “That is two… You said there won't be any second or third?”

“Shut up!” Yuuya said in anger as he tries to slash the guy in front of him

Jet kicks him right on the stomach, causing him a great deal of pain. The battle looked one sided and Cross knows it. The moment Yuuya attacks him, he is a dead man. This guy is not an ordinary guy and he showed it on the heat of the battle. “Three… two left”

“I had enough of your judo!” he yelled

“This is not Judo, you buffoon!” Jet kicks the knife from his right hand and started to launch a kick on his calf and head. He spins around and punches the guy with the back of his right hand. He then jumps and spins in mid-air, kicking him right in the stomach once again. He falls down, kissing the concrete once again. “Oh, sorry… that is six… or was it five? I don’t know” he wondered, “This is called CQC technique, moron!”

Yuuya passed out and knocked out of cold. Jet approaches the tied man and unties the rope. “You okay?” he asked. Cross gasped when he saw Yuuya tried to stab him from the back with his katana. “Look out!” he said as he grabs the gun on the table

DOR! DOR! DOR! DOR! DOR! DOR!

“Hah… hah… hah…” he wheezed

Yuuya is dead. Six bullet holes were seen under his white shirt, starting to bleed out with crimson colored liquid. “…”

“Why don’t you finish him, man?” Cross yelled, “You could’ve killed earlier!”

“I knew you would shoot him” Jet replied flatly, “I’d better get out of here right now… the police are on the way”

“That is some serious CQC technique” he said, “Where did you learn it?”

“I'm not telling”

“I owe you one… what’s your name?” he ask again

“I won't tell my name to a stranger” he replied as he takes his black jacket from the table, “See you around, officer!”

“What are you?! A cop?! Mercenary?! Some kind of one man army?!”

“I don’t know, you tell me” he walks away as he puts on his jacket and disappeared into the night, “Look, I don’t want any fame or reputation, so I’d better stay that way”

He gets onto his car and as he gets out from Haneda, he saw a lot of police cars gets inside the hangar compound to look for Cross. He sighed lightly and drives away from the scene unnoticed.

Thanks to the ‘unintentional’ interference by the Jet, team HSSR wins the battle. All of them gathered at East Ooi to celebrate their victory. Jet passes by the place and cruise slowly to attract Sora’s attention. When he did looked at the silver NA2, the driver of the silver car simply raise his hand, pointing his thumb up to the air. Sora nodded to him as the silver NA2 disappears to the night.

He smiled as he sees the cheering guys on the parking area. He gets out his iPhone and calls his friend to say two words with a lot of meaning, “Mission accomplished”

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Aug 7 2010, 12:47 AM

This rpm was my favourite one to read out of all of them. After reading that, does this mean that it's the end of the story?

hmm... personally speaking... the Yakuza involvement is starting to sound too generic for me... slipping away much from the main theme... but it looks quite good as well.

Well... I'm not saying anything for now... just wait for more. If you look at something on the story, you know it's far from over...

SPOILER

just look at the Jet, he's going to play an important role later on

It kinda did, since Yuuya's life is not completely exposed to the readers (except the fact that he is antagonist character, thus he's on the bad side of street racing- with all the gloomy and bad reputation). while Hikaru and the gang is at the spotlight for their struggle, Yuuya and his team, which is more senior tends to step out of the context as street racers and lead a life of vice. I feel the urge to explore his dark side of the law and involve them instead. You know how Yakuza is, right? people know they exist, yet they didn't show up very often

How it will end up is going to be explained on the next RPM, which is... I don't know, 40% finished, perhaps... I'll be back with more action!

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Jul 24 2010, 03:44 PM

Sora's getiing married XD

looked like it, but in fact it's just a pair of ring for him and her

You said Tomo might be Sora's final battle... a race between 2 Blue legends... 2 blue R34 GT-Rs... right?

He is... if you checked the previous RPM where Hikaru bought his NA1 type-R and Sora met Inoue Shin, you can get most of the details on his next GT-R.

SPOILER

At first I want to battle Sora with Kitsumoro, Steve with Yamazaki, the Hawaiian with Tsuchiya and Jet with Akiyama before Sora and Steve battled their ex-teammates... but considering the urgent situation, I guess I'll save the best for the last, which is their final battle on various place across Shutokou

[ Post merged on Jul 26 2010, 08:55 PM ]
I edited the character's list and adding the name of Jet... it's on the previous post. And here is the 26th RPM... are you ready for a huge turnover? Because here it comes! Drop any comments you have, okay?

RPM 26: Crisis at the Team

It’s been a thrilling experience for team HSSR since they managed to defeat the Racing Queens. All members of the team went back home and decided to continue the celebration at the coffee shop near the riverbank tomorrow- the one that Kaede owns. As the Steve and Sora arrived back home, Aya and Claire greets them with a table, filled with a lot of delicious foods. “Welcome back!” Claire said, “Congratulation on becoming the best team on Tokyo”

Steve grins as he replied with a smile, “We’re home”

“What’s cooking?” Sora asked

“Lots of things… We cooked all these foods with lots of our love, so enjoy it” Aya smiled

“Well… time to dig in, Sora” Steve nodded

“Yeah…”

Aya turned on the TV and switched it to NHK news. “And now we’re bringing you the update on the current situation regarding Sergeant James Cross. He was found with a lot of wounds at one of the empty hangars of Haneda airport. Musashi Yuuya was indeed the one who kidnapped him and the ransom money shows it all” said the reporter, “However, Musashi was killed when Cross tried to protect himself when he brandished the Katana to kill him”

“After I managed to get myself free, the fight was inevitable… I managed to knock him unconscious and when was about to get some rest on the chair, he brandishes the katana to stab me” Cross explained, “There was nothing else to do and I only tried to survive… in the end… I killed him with his own gun to protect myself”

“Very ironic indeed… what about the entire drug syndicate you’ve been working on for all these years?” the reporter asked

“We have his entire team in our custody, and we will try to squeeze them with more information” Cross nodded, “Well, excuse me… I need to go to the hospital to get some medical check up!”

Even though he is injured, he is happy that he finally wraps up this case he’s been working on a very long time. “It’s over, huh?” Aya asked

“Yuuya was found dead… and maybe it’s safe to say that we owe that to that guy” Sora smiled, “Well, enough chatter! Time to eat!”

“You’re late… I already ate most of them” Steve laughs

“Gah! You cheating bastard!” Sora said as he started to strangle his friend

“D’oh!” Steve gasped

Sora can’t help it but to feel happy as well. Whoever the Jet was, he is a reliable person with high sense of integrity. “Oh yeah? Where did he go after he helped Cross?” Sora can’t help it but to wonder about the mysterious guy.

Meanwhile the police officers across Tokyo started to feel very threatened with the fact that most of the dangerous street racers in Tokyo started to arm themselves with weapon. Musashi Yuuya is the best example for this threatening fact, not to mention the person who is shooting his men in the crotch at Sendai, who is the same person as the one wreaking havoc last night at Tokyo Disneyland. The morale of every police officer started to decrease and they began to fear the street racers across Japan. Seeing this, the director of Metro Police Department started to think hard and through about how to counter these chain of events.

With Interpol’s case in Tokyo finally closed, Cross and Jessie will no longer help them with street racing case. Cross agreed to help out in the first place, just because Musashi Yuuya; the notorious drug dealer is also a street racer with bad reputation for countless cases of extortion, murder, and drug abuse... which cost him his life on the hand of Cross. With this one lesson, the Police Department can rest easy for a moment since Musashi family controls most of the drug trafficking across Japan. The reason they can get their hands on Yakuza help, is because some member of Yakuza family is held by an agreement... now that he’s gone, the Yakuza families which are involved with him in the first place, started to deny their involvement.

A day after Cross’s rescue, the director of Metro Police Department held up a confidential meeting to find out the way to resolve the firearms problem as well as increasing the morale of the police officers across Japan. “We will begin today’s meeting with one reason in our mind... street racing in Tokyo has been very disturbing for the past few years” said the man as he sips his warm coffee, “We have seen two street racer with dangerous weapon and they are using it against us... God knows how much of street racers like them”

“So what are you suggesting, director?” another officer asked

“I will arrest them one by one if I have to” he said calmly, “But that is not the case right now... we have to concentrate on how we could arrest them simultaneously...”

“What about a competition, sir? Seeing Red Bull competition, we can assure two things; a street racer will come as long as there is a chance of proving their skills, and even though there will be civilian on the competition, we can always let them release them” the officer said again

“That is a good idea... we will spread the rumor about the competition and we will see the participant and cross reference with their street aliases” the director nodded, “In one week, we will execute this plan and get it over with in no time”

And by tomorrow, the competition was posted in the local newspapers, car magazines, and even website. Of course, the entire competition is a fake one and hopefully every street racer will be attracted into participating... which they did, including our beloved team HSSR. “Hey look at this” Hikaru said in excitement to Gonsuke as he shows a page, showing the detailed information about the competition. Gonsuke takes a look and he feels the excitement rushing through his mind also. “Wow... another competition” Gonsuke smiled, “We have to tell about this to everyone”

“Yeah... why don’t we discuss it later tonight at the coffee shop” Hikaru nodded. “That is a great idea... I’m sure everyone will be very excited” Gonsuke grins

That night Hikaru and the others met up at Kaede’s coffee shop to discuss the plan. With a plate of warm tiramisu or chocolate cake and an espresso or ice coffee for everyone, they are ready to begin the discussion. “What do you say?” Hikaru asked

“Hmm… the union of local speed shops presenting a competition for racers” Steve smiled, “I'm in!”

“The flyer looks catchy and interesting enough… I guess this is a great opportunity for improving ourselves” Sora sips his ice coffee

“Well… we are indeed very lucky” Iwami nodded. Yamada continued, “Now that we’re already the best team on Tokyo, we can rack up more popularity and reputation with this one competition”

“Yamada’s right… we will register tomorrow and participate in the event” Keith agrees. “I'm sure this will be a huge success for all of us” Clark wheezed

“You don’t have to do that… I already registered all of your names” Gonsuke grins, “I'm so excited with this upcoming event, man”

“Well… for now, let us enjoy ourselves” Tarou grins. Souya continued as he eats the strawberry on his cake “Let’s eat everybody”

Some of the racers however, feel the event is very suspicious- and one of them is Jet. He checks out the background of the event and found out nothing was out of the ordinary… for most of the street racers, this could only mean one thing; it’s a good opportunity for improving themselves and shows off their skills. But for Jet, this could only mean one thing; a setup. In order to confirm his theory, he opens the website and started to track the IP address of the admin. When he does all that he pinpoints the location of the IP address and looks it up on Google map… headquarter of Metro Police Department. “Figures” he thought

He scours around for more information and found out something intriguing… so intriguing that it started to irritates him. “These guys never learns” he bites his lip. He didn’t have any other choice but to participate as well, making sure nothing happened to them. Why would he do that? What is his true intention?

Aside from all of this, Jet started to wonder… was this a setup, prepared by Cross? He logs off from the website and opened up a new search on the Metro Police Department database- hospital where Cross is treated. “Hm… a private hospital in Tokyo, under someone else’s name- Elliot Jean” he thought, “Clever indeed”

He takes off his chest harness where he sheathed his survival knife and grabs his black jacket. No need to bring knife to a hospital, since they will check up on his belongings. “Time to hit the streets”

(Live in Tokyo by Kelly Wright: Initial D the Movie of Super Eurobeats)

“Tokyo is a great place to live” he smiled, “The night scenery in this city is simply amazing”

He saw a lot of street racers on Shotokou racing against each other. He is also happened to be challenged by one. “Ah... usual high beam challenges initiation” he thought, “Sure, why not? Try and follow me if you can”

He shifted down to second gear and starts to floor it. Fire spits from his twin pipe exhaust, accompanied with a loud bang. As he accelerates forward leaving his challenger, the dry engine sound completely obliterates his opponent’s engine sound. He overtakes the other street racers as well, surprising them with another powerful contender on Shutokou area. “Is that...?” said the driver of Mazda RX7

“Yeah, that is an NA2!” the passenger replied

He smiled happily as he stares at his rearview mirror but he is here not for a race. He’s here for different reason. He exited the highway as quickly as he can towards the hospital where Cross is being treated.

When he arrived at the mentioned hospital, where he spotted a lot of police officers in civilian clothes. If he enters and ask about Eliot Jean, the nurse will ask for his badge, making sure the one that visits him is a police officer. Well he didn’t have one, since he is not a police officer, so he would need to improvise. Once again, he hacks the database of this hospital and found the guest list and their respective room number. He manages to locate Cross, and he would need a way to get in, without being spotted by the nurse on the reception desk. “Infiltrating the hospital seems fun” he grins as he cuts off the engine

He parks on the basement and he needs to makes his way up to fifth floor, where Cross is being treated. Room 505… fifth floor, fifth room. He stands in front of the hospital, waiting for someone to be brought inside for medical attention… which arrived few minutes later… talk about the power of manga. He needs to act well and plays it cool. As the victim is brought in, the police think he is the family member of the victim, while the victim thinks he is a medical response team.

As the victim is brought inside, past the reception desk, he headed to the other elevator and ascends it to fifth floor. “Nicely done… I guess. Deception and theatricality is two basic things people should master in this cruel world”

As he approaches room 505, no one is posted to guard him… maybe the visiting hour is over for the day? Who knows? He knocks on the door few times, before Cross lets him in. “Come on in” he said from inside the room, “Who is it?”

“It’s me” Jet replied flatly

“You… how did you get in here?”

“Nah, you wouldn’t want to know” he shrugs

“Actually yeah… what is it?” he asked

Jet gets out his iPhone and opens the web browser. He then shows it to the man in the bed for explanation and answer. “Did you set this up?”

“Racing competition again? What do you mean I set this up?” Cross seems puzzled. “I see… then it’s entirely on Metro Police Department” Jet sighed

“What do you mean? Explain it to me” Cross said again

“I kind of hack the database of the website of this event… when I track the IP address of the people who made it, it was originated from Metro Police Department headquarter” he explained, “Looks like they intended to capture every street racer who is going to participate there, including your friend Sora”

“Sora participates in that event?!” Cross gasped

“Don’t be so surprised all the time… I will participate also to make sure nothing bad befalls him and his friends”

“Let me tell Sora about the details”

“And ask him to do what? Explain the entire situation to his friend? They will found out that he knows you; the Interpol officer” Jet sighed, “They will hate him for the rest of his life”

Cross turns silent. He knows what Jet said is true and there is any other way to prevent things to happen. “Tell me what you’re going to do” Cross exhaled lightly

“There won't be any race… they already specified that by the end of the week, all of the participants should gather at Daikoku-Futo” Jet explained, “I will create a havoc when the time comes and help all of them escape the highway. After that, it is up to them and God Himself”

“What about me? Is there anything you need me to do?” Cross asked

“No… just stay out of this and let your wounds heal… I’ll take care of this. It’s not like you can give an instruction to delay the order, right?”

“I see…” Cross nodded, “Tell me one thing- why did you help Sora and his friends?”

“Not sure… I was told to do it and keep them out of trouble for a very high payment” he explained, “Two people hired me; a friend of mine and another unknown contractor… even though I love the money, I love it even more when they told me it involves high risk and I could get to use the skills I have learned for my entire life”

“Your skills? You mean CQC?”

“Some of that yeah… well, enough chatter from me… see you around, Cross”

“You want to tell me your name?”

“Sorry… my name is not important”

Tomorrow evening, Jet drops by the place Sora worked at; Shell gas station located on the heart of Tokyo city. Not to buy few liters of gas, but to see how he and his friends are doing. He parked his car at one of the empty lot and gets out of his car to bought something to drink from the minimart. “How are you doing?” Sora asked, “Thanks for helping us and Cross the other day”

“No biggie… oh yeah, do you participate on the weekend’s racing competition?”

“Yeah… do you also participate?”

“I am” Jet nodded

“I see… I was looking forward to pay back my loss to you and your car” Sora grins. Jet simply replied with a shrug, “I doubt there will actually be a chance to do that”

“What do you mean?”

“Nah, nothing…” he nods, “Oh yeah, keep your girls away from this one since it’s going to be dangerous”

“Dangerous? You will do something about it, I assume?”

“It’s not me you should be careful with… it’s something else and it’s bigger than me”

“What are you talking about?”

“You will risk everything if I told you about it” Jet exhaled lightly, “Just wait for the day to come. Well, if you excuse me, I’d like to prepare everything for the competition. I’ll see you on Saturday, then”

As he gets back to the inn, Jet knew that this is going to be one hell crazy party. A lot of street racers gathered in one place, with their enemies in front of them. He needs to improvise the gadget this one last time. When he arrives at the inn, he saw a lot of people watching a kid playing with an Xbox 360 game of Need for Speed Most Wanted on the living room of the inn. Jet likes the game very much and decided to take a look on how good he plays it. The kid is being chased by the police cars and cruisers, thus he needs to use his wit as he drives through the obstacles the police has created around the perimeter, including spike trips. “Spike trips…” he gasped, “I can certainly use that for the idea of the next invention”

When he saw the kid is almost boxed by the police cars formation, he reacts by giving him an advice. “NOS- now! Get away from the box formation”

All of the people, who are also watching the kid plays the game, turn their attention to him. The kid follows his advice and manages to get out in time before the police cars boxed his car and arrest him. “Oh, excuse me… reflex”

He went back to his room and locks the door. How did he make the gadget, was another problem to be solved. He needs something both compact, yet strong. Compact, so he can carry it easily and puts it anywhere. And strong, enough to be able to puncture the tires of the police cars. He takes a sheet of paper and started to picture the diagram of the design. A medium-sized tile, divided into two sections in equal portion. He then started to remember the criss-cross shape of the spike trips in Most Wanted game. “Iron concrete needles in criss-cross plate will be held together with a lot of loose screws and sealed in by the upper side of the tile box… and as for the spring, I will need three set of spring; one for the criss-cross plate, so they lined outwards… and two for opening the upper side of the tile box” he thought, “I have to buy the things I need and start to fabricate it right away”

He gets back down to the living room and asks the owner where he could find the materials he need and a warehouse to weld the things together. ”Excuse me, owner… where can I find the hardware store and a welding shop?”

“You can find the hardware store two blocks from the grocery, and the welding shop just before the intersection” the owner said

“Thank you for the information” Jet replied

As he leaves the inn and heads down the hill on foot, he is preparing himself for the most tiring days for preparing his invention. This will be a grand one, and it will be more complicated than the last one; egg-paintball. He goes to the local grocer and bought three cans of Red Bull energy drink, along with a pack of Lotte black chewing gum. “This is going to be one hell of a party… and a tiring work to be done”

Later that night, when he’s finished with the invention, he falls asleep before he tries it. He hasn’t touched the Red Bull yet. Even though he chews all of the Lotte chewing gum, it is not strong enough for him, making him feel sleepy. He closes his eyes for a moment and opens it back up, only to find him someplace else.

(On the Other Side of the Mirage by Sakuraba Motoi and Aoyama Hibiki - Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtracks)

He is riding on a tram when he is on a free vacation at San Francisco. He’s accompanying a beautiful girl to go shopping. Her hair is shoulder length and blue eyes, which will captivate everyone who looks at her. Even though she is a bit thin, her body figure is perfect; with a big bust and butt, she is very sexy… qualified enough to enter a bombshell girl class. “What are you staring at?” she asked him

“Hm?” Jet sounds puzzled

“That poker face is what people in our neighborhood loved about you” she said, “Well… they can't predict what you’re going to do, which will always surprise them”

“Well… I'm actually being hit by the beautiful landlady” he grins, “I'm flattered, ma’am”

“Don’t let it go over your head” she giggled, “Thank you for accompanying me to shop for my cooking”

“No biggie…” he nods, “I know you want to celebrate your dad’s recovery, since he is getting better and better by the day, so I guess it’s not a problem for me, ma’am”

She looks a bit annoyed. She is as old as he is, but being called ma’am by him. He trampled his right leg and pouted as she looks toward the left side of the tram. “Ouch… what gives?” he asked

“You always called me ma’am… even though I'm your landlord, it doesn’t mean you have to call me that”

“Geez… sorry, ma…”

“Hmph!” she ignores him

They got off and walk towards the mall. The sky turns cloudy in a sudden and starts pouring a lot of water. “Ah… it’s raining” she said.

Her mobile phone rings. She gets a phone call from her neighbor. “Yes?” she asked

“Please come back home now, dear” said her neighbor, “Your father’s condition worsens all of a sudden and he wanted to see you”

She gasped in surprise. Her heart skips a beat and her feet feel very weak all of a sudden. Her father’s condition worsens- he is dying and needs to see his daughter for one last time. “Please tell him to hang on! I'm coming back with a doctor” she said

“The doctors already arrived few hours ago and checked him, but his condition suddenly worsens” said her neighbor, “Please come back, he might not last long”

“What is it?”

“My dad… his condition gets worse suddenly” she started to cry, “Can we go back now? I want to see him for one last time”

“Taxi!!!”

Few minutes of speeding inside the taxi, the two arrived back at her house. She gets inside her father’s room and started to cry for her beloved father. “Dad…” she cried, “Please don’t leave me alone”

“My dear girl… you look very beautiful” he said under his breath, “You are an adult now and you must behave and act like one. Where is he? Is he here?”

“Yes, he’s waiting outside” she nodded

“Please call him… I want to tell him something important” her father gasped, “Please leaves us alone”

Jet is called by the man on the bedroom. The man tells him to get closer and whispered something in his ear… something he couldn’t understand for all these years. “Tell her that I'm sorry… please help her to remember who she was from the beginning” the man said, “I want to tell her when she is ready, but I'm weak and might not last long… so I entrust this task to you”

“What does that mean, sir?” Jet said in confusion, “Help her to remember who she was from the beginning?”

“Please… take care of my daughter” he said in his last breath

She rushed to the room and holds her father hand tightly as she cried. “I promise… leave it to me” Jet nodded to him

Something is ringing on his pocket; an iPhone 3G. It rings so loud that it wakes him up from his long dream. His friend called. “Hey, what’re you up to?” he asked. Jet replied with grumpy voice, “Yeah?”

“Whoa, are you sleeping right now? Sorry” his friend laughs

“Thanks for awaking me up ‘cause I have that dream again”

“Same dream again? Whoa… looks like he wants to collect your promise”

“Could be… but he died without giving me a proper clue to get his treasure; his first dying wish” Jet exhaled as he opens a can of cold Red Bull, “I’ll keep it aside for now, what’s wrong?”

“Seriously, what are you doing?”

“I have just finished inventing something else to watch out the babies”

“What do you mean, man? Stop with the complicated words and fill me in on the details” he said again

“Those guys get trapped by the Metro Police Department. They are being lured with false information for the racing competition” he explained, “They will gather around at Daikoku-Futo, where they will be ambushed by the police officers”

“What the?! That is serious!” his friend said with disbelief

“Tell me about it… where are you now?”

“I’m on the flight to Tokyo on a special cargo plane… I’ll be there in the next two days” his friend continued, “You’re going to be very troubled with this one, aren’t you? What’re you going to do to help them?”

“Usual theatricality and deception... SG for smoke grenade is the keyword for Saturday” Jet shrugs, “You have any better idea?”

“Nah… I just want to tell you that other guy has transferred the money few days ago… it should be on your account by now” he nodded

“I see… well, I still have a lot from my racing money, though” Jet sighed, “But I’m going to be very troubled to keep them out of prison bars. Can you get here in time and help out?”

“Well… I’ll see what I can do to help” his friend nodded, “Oh yeah… landlady says hello”

Jet gasped for a moment before he asks. “She did?”

“Yeah… she also wondered whether you wear the purple WWJD bracelet she gave you when you went away”

“I did… I always wear it”

“I can't believe that you decided to be a catholic and gets a commune because of her persuasion. She also wanted me to tell you that you should call her and tell her how you’re doing”

“She was just trying to help me from that damned disorder… it’s because of her that I'm right here today” Jet shrugs, “I’ll call her later”

“Talk about coincidence, huh?”

“You and I know better that there is no such thing as coincidence... everything is already been written on the paper of fate”

The other guy on the phone line smirked. “Fate, huh? That’s a complicated word, coming from you” he said, “Well, okay then… see you soon”


“Yeah…”

He exhaled lightly as he finished the Red Bull as he dialed the number of his landlady. “Hello” said a girl from the other line of the telephone

“Ma’am?”

“Oh, how are you, Jet?” she asked

“I'm fine thank you… how are the things there?”

“It’s going pretty well… the restaurant idea of yours was simply amazing” she nodded happily, “We have a lot of customer coming and going everyday”

“I see… that is good to hear”

“When will you return to San Francisco? I will cook something delicious for you” she smiled

“Maybe in the next two to three weeks”

“I see… do you wear the purple WWJD bracelet I gave you?”

“I sure did… it’s on my right wrist now”

“Good to hear… have you been going to church last Sunday?”

“I ah… forgot about that since there is a collision with Red Bull racing competition” he bites his lip, “I'm sorry…"

“I knew it’s going to happen… well, don’t forget to go this Sunday, then”

“I will…”

“Oh yeah, I have a surprise for you when you got back” she said again

“You know I'm not too good with surprises… what is it?”

“I bought myself a same car as you. This one is equipped with turbo, though… Unlike yours, which has stage two NA tuning by King Motorsports”

“What?!”

“I sure did… finally I managed to get my hands upon the legendary NSX type-R GT!” she giggles happily, “It is being sent to King Motorsports for re-spray, complete engine rebuild and I have spent almost… $25,000 for dress up and carbon fiber parts”

Jet is speechless. His landlady is also a car fan, but he never knew that she would actually get her hands on NSX type-R GT. “It’s Spoon, baby” she giggled, “I love that car…”

“Glad you like it… oh yeah, how is everyone doing at your place?”

“Not much going on around here, without you around” she smiled, “Please come back home as soon as possible, Jet... I’m dying here without you”

“Was that supposed to be a joke?”

“Damn airheaded guy” she bites her lip, “I thought you’re going to fall for that one”

“Well then I’ll see you soon, ma’am”

“Yeah, see you soon. Take care of yourself, alright?”

“I will…”


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Today is Saturday and it’s the promised day. For some unknown reason, Sora feels uneasy. Maybe what Jet said to him the other day gets to him. He exhaled lightly and tries to hide his anxiety. Aya knew something is wrong with his boyfriend, so she tagged along. Even though Sora has been warned by the Jet not to, she didn’t care. Jet saw his girlfriend awaits for him in his car, thereby he knew that Sora didn’t try hard enough to convince his girlfriend not to come. “Sora!” Jet calls him from afar. Sora looks for the origin of the sound and found him waiting at the McDonald restaurant. He approaches the man to see what he wants. “I told you not to let your girlfriend tagged along! Something bad will happen real soon and things will get ugly in no time at all!”

“She followed me by herself!” Sora said, “What are you hiding, exactly, Jet? What do you mean by things are going to get ugly, huh?!”

Jet knew it will be useless to try and convince him without any proof. “See that big guy over there? With the handy-talkie? That guy is not people from event promoter- he’s a police officer from Metro Police Department”

Sora is very surprised to hear what he just said. He looks around and saw there are more police officers, dressed in civilian clothes by the entrance and the exit of Daikoku-Futo with wooden blockades. He started to feel nervous and panic. “What the?! What should we do?!”

“Here! Let me tell you what you’re going to do; give this disposable cell phone to your friends and tell them to stay in their car” Jet explained, “I will try and shoot them out of the way by diverting their attention to me”

“What?!”

“Do it- NOW!”

Sora takes all of the mobile phone and runs off to his entire friend and gives them the disposable cell phones. “What is this, Sora?” Hikaru asked. Sora didn’t have any time to explain, “Just take it, okay? Wait in the car, man”

Aya notices the weird behavior of her boyfriend. She looks worried and didn’t know what to do. “Sora… is everything okay?” Aya asked

“They are here” Sora said to Aya as he hands over the cell phone to Steve, Keith, Yamada, Gonsuke, Iwami, Clark, Tarou, and Souya. “Who’s here?” Aya asked again

“Police officers” Sora answered, “Go wait in the car…”

When Aya gets into his blue car, suddenly all of the police officers get their weapons ready and waiting at the entrance and exit of the parking area. The chief of Metro Police Department showed up with a portable loudspeaker. “This is chief of Metro Police Department speaking” he said, “Thank you for coming here on such a short notice… and I'm afraid to tell you that we don’t have any racing events to do. We will begin our interrogation to everyone in here and if you are proved to be a street racer, we will take you into our custody and confiscate your car”

Jet calls everyone who received the disposable cell phone from his iPhone. “Get inside the car and don’t ask too many question” he said, “When things are clear, go get the hell out of this place and rendezvous at Minato-ku harbor- one way or another”

“Who is this?” Steve asked

“Your only hope for survival” he said as he takes an aim with his PSG-1 rifle and gets ready to shoot, “Go!”

DOR! DOR! DOR! DOR!

The police officers in the area started to gather around the chief of the police and tried to protect him. All of the street racers in the parking area ignites their engine and gets ready to make their escape, including Hikaru and the others. “That man is right! We need to trust him for now and gets ready to escape”

When Aya heard the gunshot, she gets into the driver side of the Z-tune and ignites the engine. She then inhales her breath slowly and gathered her courage. She needs to lure the police officers to her so the others could escape. He shifted to the first gear and accelerates toward the chief of the police officers. They started to panicked and run away, avoiding getting hit by the blue car. Jet takes a look on what’s happening with his scope. What he saw surprised him. Not because she drives the Z-tune, but because something else. “Landlady…?” he thought. She then drives to the exit of Daikoku-Futo, ramming the wooden barricade.

“After that car!” said the chief of police officer

A lot of police cars are following her, trying to catch up and arrest the driver. That was a great opening from her, decreasing the guard level on this place. “Everyone, get out of Daikoku- Now!!!” Jet yelled through his iPhone

Hikaru and the others followed Aya’s example and gets away from the parking area, followed by every street racer on the scene. “Sora, ignite the engine of my NA2 and drive over here” he said

Sora runs to the silver NA2, parked far away from the scene and gets into it. He ignites the engine and shifted to the first gear. Jet started to shoot around and disabled some of the police officers with his PSG-1 rifle. When things are started to get even hairy, he puts back the rifle into his bag and gets his M1911 and started shooting every police he saw. He shoots them precisely on their leg, disabling them without killing them.

When Sora stopped in front of the McDonald, he gets into the car and started to pop some of the smoke grenades as Sora drives out of the scene. When the car had reached the exit of Daikoku-Futo, he threw the portable spike trips to the road, buying them more time to get away from the chase. As the silver NSX caught up with everyone, he gets into the cabin and calls everyone once again. “We’re not out of the woods yet” he sighed, “The young lady had gathered her courage to lure them, thereby letting all of you gets away safely”

More police cars are on their way, approaching the team fast from behind. “We got company!” Steve said

Jet grabs his egg-paintball gets ready to throw them to the windshield of the police cars. “Here we go!” he said

He throws all of the egg-paintball towards their windshields. That will sticks very bad and blinds them. To prevent them even further from following the team, he throws his portable spike trips once again. “That should do… for now at least” Jet nodded

When he sits back, his iPhone rings… it’s his friend who’s calling. “Hey, where are you?” he asked

“I'm at Yokohane line… meet me at the rendezvous point” Jet replied, “Don’t be late”

“I already did… you’re heading towards here?”

“I am. Wait for a bit, then. I’ll be there soon” Jet nodded. He then called the other and updates them on the latest situation. “Let’s go to Minato-ku harbor right away, everyone… we’ll be safe there and once we’re there, I’ll debrief you on the current situation”

“What about Aya? Where is she?” Sora asked

“…”

Jet didn’t give any answer to his question, since he didn’t know either. “I'm sure she’s fine… she is a great driver, judging by the way she handles your GT-R” Jet shrugs

“Damn it! I rather lose my friends over her!” Sora bites his lip in anxiety

Few minutes later, they arrived at Minato-ku harbor. An orange BMW M6 is parked inside one of the harbor’s warehouse and Steve recognizes it and of course the owner as well, who is leaning his back on the door. “Scott?!” he said in surprise

“Hello, Blackburn” he said with a smile, “How are you?”

“Okay everyone… we’re safe here” Jet nodded, “First things first, I want to apologize to all of you”

“What is going on here?” Tarou asked

“That fake competition was a set-up, made by the Metro Police Department… and you guys are stupid enough to participate” Jet explained, “Thankfully all of you didn’t register your real names and decided to stick with the aliases you have”

“Is that a good thing at all?” Iwami asked

“Oh yeah, you guys might as well throw away your mobile phone, since they will track it if you still keep it around” Jet nodded, “Go on, toss them away to the sea”

All of them throws away their mobile phone to the sea and went back to continue their conversations. “Why didn’t you tell us sooner if you know all about it, huh?” Yamada continued

“I don’t think you need to answer that question, Kei” Scott said, “You have no obligation to watch over them all the time”

“The reason I helped all of you is because my assignment from Scott here to watch over Sora and Cliff Blackburn to watch Steve”

“Cliff sent you here?!” Steve sounded surprised

“Yeah… It’s not a coincidence that I met you guys on Sendai” he continued. “It’s a part of the job, see?”

“Who are you exactly?” Keith asked

“My name is Yagami Kei and I’m just a hired mercenary” he introduces himself

“I smell something fishy over here… did you know about this, Sora?” Clark asked

“I know because he told me earlier…” he explained

“This time, Cross is not here to help out with your problem” Scott nodded, “He can’t possibly delay the ambush in order to help you guys out”

“Cross?! James Cross? You know him, Sora?!” Hikaru asks

“So what if I am?” Sora asked back

“Damn you! You’re the one set us up, huh?!” Hikaru moves over to punch him

Kei reads his move and gets in front of him. “Don’t do it” Kei spins his head

“Move!” Hikaru said as he tries to punch him

What Kei only needs to do is deflecting his hand to the side and pushes his shoulder. He loses his balance and almost falls down to his knees. “I’ve warned you” he said again, “Try that once again and you’ll really get hurt”

“Damn you!”

“The reason Sora did this is to watch your backs from them!” Kei explained, looking a bit irritated seeing the way they behaved, “If it weren’t for him and Cross, RJ7 will kill all of you easily!”

“Yeah? So why didn’t he told us?!” Souya added

“Can you trust him if he do so? No?” Kei replied, “I thought so and he knows it too”

“That is enough” Sora said, “I'm sorry I didn’t tell you guys sooner… I really am, but everything I do is for the sake of the team”

“Well, you’re not one of us anymore” Tarou sighed, “You’re out of the team”

Sora is very surprised when he heard that. “Hey, isn’t it too much?” Steve asked

“I don’t think so…” Souya nodded in agreement, “He’s not one of us… friends do not kept secret from each other”

“This is what I'm talking about, Scott… friendship is a cheap word” Kei shrugs

“Yeah it does…” Scott nodded, “Well, it’s up to them… I mean it’s their problem and it’s their team after all”

“How could you do that, man?! He’s one of us and still is!” Steve disagrees. “Then you’re out as well” Tarou replied flatly

“f**k you, man!” Steve yelled, “You guys are on a team together?”

“Sort of, yeah…” Scott nodded

“I’ve had enough! Let me join your team!” Steve replied, “I'm sick with this high school team… if it weren’t for me and Sora, these guys still just a puny little team. Just because he kept a secret, you guys kick him out? Get real, b*tches!”

“It’s okay, Steve… let’s just go back home” Sora exhaled lightly

“What about your car, man?” Steve asked

“Let’s go back… I had enough with them” Sora nodded, “Hey, can you two go with us… I need to talk about something”

“Sure…” Scott nodded, “Let us go then, Kei”

“Yeah…” Kei agrees, “See you guys around”

Steve and Sora gets into the red 911, followed by Scott and Kei with their car. “You know this is going to happen?” Scott asked

“More or less, yeah” Kei answered lightly, “What I don’t get is… how could they kick him out like that? I just don’t get it”

Scott sighed and he might have an answer for his question. “Every team has their own way to solve a problem… maybe this is theirs? Who knows?” he shrugged

Steve and Sora… two guys who worked very hard for the sake of the team gets kicked easily by their own teammates. They feel very disgusted and discouraged at the same time. What will they do next, is going to have a huge impact on their lives as street racers. But for now, it’s time for them to get some rest, since the days ahead of them will be rough and hard.

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Aug 7 2010, 12:49 AM

After a thorough read... this sort of reminds me of a couple of cop-based movies, The Fast & The furious 1 & 2 and NFS Most Wanted and Undercover put together... you could give this to an American director and be made a movie...

Ouch... the 2 aces were kicked out... well... the other members are still... kids... they have their ways... they might regret their impulsiveness tho...

still awaiting for a short preview of Tomo/Daiki/Seiji gunning the Wangan in the next RPM while the final Sora vs Tomo is yet to come!!

Oo tht was good ^^ drama arise . agree wit Gunma's 34 ida..its its a movie im sure it gonna be lots of sequel better yet drama series ^^

This is the 27th RPM... I added a spice of supernatural on it and we're speeding towards the end... don't forget to drop a comment and enjoy!

RPM 27: The Lingering Spirits

The guys have arrived at Aya’s house, but strangely no one is home right now. Where are Aya and Claire? The red 380 RS is nowhere to be seen on the car port, let alone the blue Z-tune. “Aya!” Sora calls her, but no one is answering. “Where in the hell’s name is she?!”

“Calm down…” Steve pats his shoulder, “Claire is not here either… maybe the two of them left together already?”

(Monologue and Stimulation by Shiono Dougen and Mishiba Satoshi - Sentou Yousei Yukikaze Original Sountracks volume 1)

All of them get inside the house to check up on the interiors. No luck, there isn’t any signs of life around this cheerful looking house. “No one is here…” Scott looks around. Sora can feel his feet going numb and weak. He is both tired and worried at the same time. “Damn it… I hope she is safe” Sora said as he leaned over the wall

“It’s safe to say that the two of them already find another place to lay low” Kei shrugs

“What about your car, man?” Steve asked

“She can have it… as long she is safe, I don’t give a damn” Sora replied flatly, “I’ll kill myself if anything befalls her”

Kei takes a look around the house and saw a lot of things in this house. He takes a look on the picture atop of the desk. He saw two young girls who are smiling happily with their boyfriend. When he takes a closer look at the blonde one, he is just as surprised as when he first saw her earlier on Daikoku through his sniper scope. “Is this fate?” he thought, “I'm sure she is fine, Sora… I don’t know her, but I'm sure she is tough”

“Yeah… she is” Sora nodded, “You’re right… she is going to be just fine”

Kei calls Scott to take a look to the picture on the desk. When he approaches him and takes a glimpse on it, he is very surprised. “This is…” he whispered, “How could it be…?”

Kei nodded. Looks like something is up between them. “What do you think?” he whispered back. Scott can only shrugs and replies casually “Well… I'm not sure, but I guess this is just a coincidence”

As Kei puts back the picture on the desk, they can hear a sound of two cars approaching the house and parked outside the house. “Ssssh!” Scott interrupts their conversation, “Someone is coming”

Kei gets his Operator and hides behind the door. Two people are heard walking outside the house, getting inside the front yard and ready to enter the house. Are they Claire and Aya? When one of the people passes through the door, Kei points the gun to the person’s head. “Don’t f**king move” Kei said

It’s Cross- looks like he has something important to say. “Cross?!” Sora said in surprise, “What are you doing here?”

“I want to apologize, Sora… for everything bad that is happening to you” Cross sighed

“Are you alright, James?” Jessie asked

“Huh? What are you doing here, Jess?” Steve asked

“I helped him with Interpol duties… I know Cross from long way back” she explained, “Where is Aya and Claire?”

“We’re not sure” Sora said

“Sora… I'm sorry” Cross said again

Sora sighed and forces a smile onto his face. “No problem… it’s not your fault” Sora nodded, “Don’t worry, I'm fine. Even without a car, I’ll manage just fine”

“Are you sure?” Jessie asked, sounded a bit worried

“I'm fine… can you guys locate them for me?”

“We’ll see what we can do” Cross nodded, “I’ll inform you with more information”

The two Interpol officers left the house and went back to their headquarters to gather more information on Aya and Claire’s whereabouts. “Well, what now?” Steve asked

“I'm staying here, in case they returned”

“Can I turn the TV on?” Kei asked

“Go ahead” Sora answered flatly

Kei turns on the TV and there is uproar on every corner of the street. NHK is reporting it live from the scene as several big garages are being shutdown by the police and the owners have fled to unknown. One of the garages which are being raided is Kojiro Speed Garage. “Kojiro…” Sora thought

“This is crazy…” Scott sighed

“It is… I hope all of them get away in time” Steve nodded, “Christmas is coming soon and we have no idea on the whereabouts of Claire or Aya… this is gloomy”

“Well… I have to go now” Scott said, “Call us if something is up”

“Sure thing” Sora nodded, “Thanks for helping us again, Kei… is it?”

“Yeah, sure… anytime” Kei shrugs, “Oh yeah, before we go… I want to give you guys something”

Kei gets back out and opens the trunk of his NSX. He then brought a medium-sized black bag and drops it on the sofa beside Sora. “You keep this, Sora… and you keep this, Steve”

He gave the two of them guns for their self protection purpose. Kei hands over his H&K USP45 to Sora and Glock 21 to Steve. “Ever handle airsoft guns before?” Kei asked, “This is the same… safety on, safety off… cock the slide and pull the lever when you are ready to shoot, this is for changing the magazine- simple as that”

“What are we going to do with this?” Steve asked

“For self protection- just in case, okay… know who you’re shooting and why you shoot it” Kei nodded, “Here is few extra magazine clips and few box of .45 ACP bullets for you. Keep it and use it ONLY for self-defense”

“Well… we’re off” Scott nodded, “Take care, we’ll see you soon”

“Oh yeah, one more thing; do NOT kill yourselves with it on suicide attempt” Kei said again, “You guys are no good to us if you’re dead”

The two left the cheerful house, leaving gloomy Sora and Steve all alone inside it. The latter one sighs as he opens the fridge to get a bottle of cold Cola and takes a sip before he handed the other bottle to Sora. “We will see them at the school on Monday, Sora…” Steve said, “What do you think we should do, hm?”

“We’ll just have to act casually, as if nothing is happened” Sora replied, “I'm done with street racing, since I don’t have any other car”

“Won't you get something else to be driven?”

“Nope… I don’t have anything particular in my mind, aside from Aya for now” Sora exhaled, “I'm not the Sky King anymore… and here I thought Aoi and I won't be separated, as much as I think Aya and I won’t be separated”

“Well… I'm bored with school already? What about you?”

“We’ll see about that later on… I might quit and get a job instead” Sora nodded, “You?”

“I’ll do the same, I guess… well, I'm going to get some sleep for now” Steve said as he walks toward his room, “A lot of things happened so fast today and I don’t have enough time to process them all at once. See you later”

“Yeah…” Sora replied

When Steve closes the door of his room, Sora is crying silently. He has lost three great things in one day; his girlfriend, his friend, and his car. “Aya… where are you?” Sora thought as he cried his heart out, “I’ve lost a lot of things today, and I don’t want to lose you… where are you?”

He is going through a lot of hard things in his life. Steve is gripping the Cola bottle hard- so hard that he crushes it with his right palm. He can't help but to hate all of his teammates for it. “Best friends for life?! My ass! Damn them!” Steve thought as he curses them, “I will have my revenge on them for sure!” He throws himself to the bed and stares at the ceiling with an empty look on his eyes. “Claire… be safe, girl” he said as he falls asleep.

Meanwhile, Scott and Kei are eating at ramen shop near Ueno Park. The two of them continued their conversation earlier at Aya’s house. “Are you sure that is what the old man talks about?” Scott asked in confusion. Kei nodded and after he slurps the chicken stock at the bowl he replied with a shrug. “I think so, yeah… but the thing is it’s already too late to tell her that, now that she is missing”

“Oh yeah, why don’t you tell the landlady beforehand?”

“Don’t you remember what the old man said before he died?”

“Right… the helping to remember part” Scott understands, “Do you think our sexy landlord is not who we think she is?”

“I don’t know… whoever she is, I still owe her my life” Kei exhaled as he sips his cold limeade

“Yeah? Or do you have something more you’re not telling me?”

“Such as?”

Scott shivered in fear and feels very threatened. Kei gives him his usual look when he’s about to give his unpredictable response- the usual poker face and Pandora stare on his eye. Opens it and you might get something you never expected; anger and madness that would leads to bloody massacre or joke and laughs that would leads to comical circumstances. Scott won't risk his chance and decided to stop teasing him. There are two things Scott learns from befriended him for over ten years. Make him a friend; he got your back for life. Make him your enemy; the world ain’t big enough for you to hide. Scott is glad, knowing that he is not on his bad side. “Anyways, you think of a name yet?” Scott asked

“I got two… but I think I’ll stick with the original one” Kei answered, “What do we do after this?”

“Let’s check street scenes around here”

“With what just happened, I think the street racers would be very wise to lay low for now”

“I guess you’re right… well, I’ll head back to the hotel and get some rest then” Scott sighed, “What about you?”

“Me? Not sure… maybe I’ll go back to the hotel myself and get some rest”

On Monday morning, Sora and Steve went to Akiyama racing school. Sora fills out the resignation form and hands it over to Akiyama Daiki himself. What is happening? Why did he quit? What is wrong with him? When he enters his office, Daiki greets him with his usual expressionless look on his face. “What is it, Sora?” he asked

“I came here to hand over my resignation form, Akiyama-san” Sora nodded

Daiki raised his eyebrows for a moment before he exhaled lightly. “What is it? You have something to say about this decision?” Daiki said flatly

“Yes… you watch the news last night?”

“What about it?” Daiki continued

“Well, I don’t have any car right now and let’s just say I lost my motivation for continuing my study here”

“I see… just because a car, Sora?” Daiki sighed as he signs the paper

“Not only that… I just don’t think closed racing circuit suits me very well”

“Listen here, kid… racing is not just about having a good car, but also a good skill to made it run like you want it to” Daiki explained, “If you don’t have a car, you can just bought a new one… but a skill? You cannot bought them anywhere on this world”

“I know… I'm very grateful for all you have taught me on my short stay here” Sora bows to him, “I’ll make good use of the lesson you taught me on this school”

Before Sora walk away towards the door, Daiki said something else to him. “Good luck, kid… you need it”

“Thank you, sir”

He exited the building and approaches the red 911 on the parking lot. Daiki peeks through the window and watch him as he walk away from the school. “Something wrong, Akiyama-sama?” Naoko enters his office. Daiki exhaled lightly and answers the question of his colleague, “Ninomiya Sora is quitting… the documents are on the desk. I want you to take care of the paperwork for me”

“I see… lack of motivation, sir?”

“I'm not sure… he told me that he lost his blue Z-tune but I guess he lost more than that” Daiki explained, “That kid is experiencing the hardest time on his life right now and he doesn’t have anyone else to support him”

As the two talks on Daiki’s office a blue R34 arrives on the racing school parking lot. It’s Tomo and Kasumi… looks like they are here to visit Akiyama. “Oh, Sora” Tomo said, “How are you?”

“Hi, Tomo… not that great, I guess”

“What are you doing here? Have you finished studying here for the day?” Tomo asked again

“Nah… I quit and I’ve just handed my resignation paper to Akiyama-san”

From the heavy sound of his answer, Tomo and Kasumi immediately knew something was up with him, beside his unusual gloomy mood. Something bad has happened to him. Tomo decided to know more about his friend, wondering someway to help him on the way. “What’s up, Sora? Are you sick?”

“Not really… I haven’t get a proper sleep for these past few days”

“Something wrong?” Kasumi asked

“My girlfriend is missing and she took my car with her… I don’t care about the car, but I'm very worried something bad might happen to her” Sora nodded

“Have you tried to call her?”

“Her mobile phone is inactive and I’ve been looking for her everywhere with Steve here” Sora nodded, “And without a car, I quit racing on Shutokou”

“Sora…” Tomo sympathize with him, “I'm sorry to hear that”

“I might as well just give up, huh? I mean, there is no point in looking for her anymore, right?”

“You’re just going to give up on her?” Kasumi asked with high tone on her voice. She looked very irritated with the way Sora is behaving right now. “You’re a man, aren’t you?!”

“Kasumi is right, Sora…” Tomo added, “You can’t quit on searching for her… racing is your life, right? How can you just quit like that?”

A silver NA2 stopped on the side of the road and parks beside the red 911. “Have you finished with your pathetic excuse, Sora?”

“Kei…”

“How do you know that we’re here?” Steve looked very surprised

“You’ll be amazed to see what kinds of things my iPhone 3G can do besides tracking your phones via my GPS” Kei smirked wide

“Who are you? Why do you talk to him like that?” Kasumi asked

“Oh, excuse me… my name is Yagami Kei and I'm sort of his guardian” Kei replied, “He is spoiled and he needs a hard lesson… when he got one, he is too scared to deal with it and move on”

“Then what are you proposing, man?” Sora yelled, “Stop talking with riddles and just say what you really meant!”

“I need you to calm down and remember the reason you started racing in the first place. You just worry about that for now. Aya is an adult now, she will be just fine”

“Don’t talk as if you know her!”

“I don’t! That’s why I told you that, so you can believe what you know about her!”

Sora feels pain in his chest. Hollow pain and suffocating air, making him feels very weak and ill. He passed out and falls down to his knees, before hugging the tarmac. “Sora!” Steve said as he run towards him

He is taken to the infirmary by Tomo and Steve. When Naoko came to check up on him, she explained to them that there is nothing to be worried about. He passed out because he hasn’t got a proper sleep for these past few days and he didn’t eat anything since. When all of them wait for him to wake up, Kei fills in the details of what happened to Tomo and Kasumi, as well as Naoko and Daiki. “And that’s about it” Kei nodded, “These guys are naïve and always act before thinking”

“I see… that is quite an event” Daiki nodded

(Like a Dream Come True by Meguro Shoji, Kitajoh Atsushi, Kozuka Ryuta: Persona 4 Original Soundtracks)

“Ah…” Sora tried to wake up, “What happened”

“Feel okay back there?” Kei slaps his head

“Ouch! Stop, damn it!” he said as he avoids Kei’s hand, “I'm fine!”

“That’s good… everyone is worried about you” Kei leaned his back over the wall, “You can always feel depressed like that but what will you achieve? Aya will be just fine and I'm sure she didn’t want you to worry about her”

“Yeah, yeah…” Sora shrugs, “Stop mumbling, you sounded like an old man”

“Whatever… so?”

“Thanks for worrying about me, Akiyama-san, Naoko-san, Tomo, Kasumi… I'm fine now, thanks for all of your support” Sora smiled, “Even though I’ll stick with my decision to quit the racing school”

“I see… well, there is no stopping you, huh? I respect your decision, Sora” Daiki nodded as he left the infirmary, “It’s been nice knowing you, Yagami…”

“Same here, Akiyama… let us have a run some other time”

“We should” Daiki raised his hand

All of them walk towards the parking area, followed by Tomo and Kasumi. “Well… talk to you again soon, Tomo” Sora nodded

“What about your car, then?” Tomo asked

“Well… I’ll think of something” Sora answered firmly, “When I do, I’ll inform you right away… Don’t forget, you still owe me a run, Kitsumoro”

“A race you say… Okay, see you soon” Tomo smiled

“Take care, all of you” Kasumi bows to them, “And Sora, I hope you find her. If you'll need help, we're here to aid you anytime, Sora”

“Thank you… see you around, guys” Sora smiled to them

All of them exits the parking area and met Scott near the entrance of Shutokou. “So? What now?” Scott asked. Sora and Steve smiled as the two looks at each other. “We have some other business to take care of first” Sora answered lightly, “We have to do something at the school as well, but first I need something to eat”

“Surely your school has a cafeteria, right? Let’s east something over there” Kei nodded

“Whoo! You’re treating!” Steve said

“Sure, whatever you say”

(Bon-Bon Bereppa by Hayashi Yuzo and Salon’68 - Honey and Clover Original Soundtracks)

All of them arrived on the school half an hour later. Steve and Sora showed up late on purpose, to avoid seeing their annoying ex-teammates. They are filling the resignation on the administrative office, when the two runs into Yue-sensei. “Ninomiya, Blackburn? What are you guys doing here? The class is already begun two hours ago” she said

“We’re filling our resignation form, sensei” Steve grins, “We won't be seeing you and your endless boring lecture now”

“Why you little!” Yue-sensei started to feel very irritated

“Thank you for everything you have done for us, sensei” Sora bows to her, “Take care of yourself and your baby. I'm sure he’s going to be a handsome kid”

“How do you know it’s a male?” she gasped. Sora shrugs and smiled, “Just a hunch”

The two of them went to the cafeteria and ordered something before sitting together with Kei and Scott. “Okay, let’s eat!” Sora said as he started to eat all of the food he ordered

“Don’t choke up and die” Kei frowns

Suddenly the school bell rang. It’s lunch time and all of the students are filling the cafeteria in no time at all. Seeing how the students run towards the cafeteria counter and orders their food, Kei and Scott started to think what kind of students they teaches here? They behave like hungry- savage animals, fighting for small scraps of food on the barren land. “…” Kei carefully pays attention to what they do. Steve grins, since he understands what made Kei and Scott thinks as an unusual view. “That is how we do it here…” Steve said as he eats his friend noodle

Hearing what Steve just said, Kei shows a frown in his face in disbelief. “Wow… Yagami-sama has an unknown weird side to him” Scott grins

“It’s not that! They are Japanese and they should’ve been more of a civilized nation” Kei grits his teeth and replied to Scott with a strange look, “Is this what they call with civilized, then I don’t know how would the savage behaves”

Sora is no exception. He eats his food quickly. Kei and Scott had just befriended him and seeing him eats his food like that reminded Kei and Scott of one thing; Homer Simpson. “His way of eating reminds me of Homer” Scott frowned in a weird way. “Tell me about it” Kei added

Someone stares at them from behind the corner of the hallway- it’s Souya and he looks unhappy with what he saw in front of him. “Hey, look who is back in the school” Souya said, “It’s them and their two new friends. Call everyone and gather at cafeteria right away”

Back to the four guy… Sora is already done with his food and sips his cold grape tea. “Where did you learn the CQC technique, Kei?” he asked. Kei shrugs and answered with a grin, “I served at United States Air Force for two years. When I was promoted into sergeant on the second year, there was a huge rave about Close Quarter Combat technique, brought by some of my men who played Metal Gear Solid 3 aboard the ship” he explained, “I wasn’t interested at first, but I tried it and quickly adapts it for my own personal reason”

“You served at US Air Force?!” Steve gasped

“I was a sergeant and I went for a several mission to Iraq on 2006” he nodded

“How did you manage to achieve into Sergeant in two short years?” Sora thought aloud

“It’s safe to say that I live a dangerous life, guarding soldier’s supply in the enemy line” Kei exhaled, “It’s not something I can be proud of and I regret my decision to join the Air Force because I shot a lot of innocent people, just to get my job done. Wars can change people easily”

“Why did you leave? I mean, you had a good position after all” Steve nodded

“I was on leave when I was treated for PTSD… you guys know what it is, right?”

Steve and Sora had no idea on what he talks about. What is PTSD? Some sort of toy or something? Scott grins and took over the explanation from Kei, “Post-traumatic stress disorder… PTSD in short. It’s a traumatic disorder when you experienced bad things like war or accident”

“In short, I was a sane crazy man” he smirks, “Don’t mess around with me, or you’ll lose your life”

He then shows his usual poker face and Pandora eyes as Steve, Sora, and Scott gulped hard. Kei smirks again and that expression quickly puts them at ease. “Scrap that look of your faces… I'm not going to slit your throat in the middle of the night”

“Gah!” Steve gasped in fear, followed by an evil grin from Kei, “Hehehehe…”

“And then?”

“I resign after I fully recovered and give the position to someone else” Kei continued

Kei knew the rest of his teammates are eavesdropping their conversation, which is why he decided to spill some of his secret. “I want to learn about CQC too… it seems cool” Sora nodded, “Teach me sometime, okay?” Kei nodded back and replied lightly, “Sure… anytime”

Kei exhaled lightly and sips his thick green tea. “Finished eavesdropping?” he asked with a loud voice. Hearing he said that, Hikaru and the others showed up in front of them and approach their table. “Why are you still here?” Hikaru asked, “I thought you run away out of town already with your tails between your legs”

“We’re just here for our resignation from the school… I find it we’re going to be sick, just being at the same school as you guys are” Steve grins

“Keep talking, Blackburn” Clark grins back

“We’re here not to look for a fight, but if you want one… nah, you’ll know what will happen, right?” Kei shrugs, showing somewhat an irritated look on his face, “Sendai is the great example for you”

“In that case, why don’t we have a run?” Tarou said, “We’re going to wait you guys, two weeks from now”

“Make sure you show up at Minato-ku harbor” Iwami added. “We’ll be waiting, b*tches” Gonsuke continued

“Sure thing, man… sure thing” Sora nodded, “I’ll show you what you’ll get if you mess with me”

All of them march back to their class and leave the four to continue their conversation. “I can't stand them… makes my skin crawl” Scott shivered in chill, “Well let us get out of here and decided what to do next”

The four of them left the school perimeter and decided to get back at Aya’s place. Sora takes one final look on the house with Steve as they pack their clothes onto their bags. Kei and Scott decided to stick around and have a rest at the back garden, dubbed the Eden by Sora and Steve. “It’s very tranquil here” Kei closes his eyes as he leaned over the wooden pillar on the back veranda. Scott nodded in agreement without even spitting a single word to reply his friend. Stupidly enough, all of them fell asleep inside the house. Steve and Sora are tired from long travel and packing their clothes isn’t helping at all with their fatigues, while Scott and Kei asleep because they are admiring the beautiful Eden and went asleep.

Sora is having an interesting dream. Once again he recalled his dream from a couple of week before, right when he is selling his the R35 he got from his victory against Violet Flower- the memories about the blue R34 and his encounter with Inoue Shin at Zele showroom. With his vague memory, he remembered about the particular GT-R and wakes up, finding all of his friends are fast asleep. “What the hell?!” he yelled, constantly waking up all of them, “Why are you guys asleep as well?”

“Whoah… nyem” Scott yawned, “Damn, that was a good short nap”

“You got something on your head?” Kei asked as he opens his eyes slowly

“Yeah… sort of”

“Sora, what is it?” Scott asked

Sora shrugs, “I remembered something just now”

“What about it?” Steve asks also

Sora sighed. He sits down at the edge of the veranda, while Steve follows and sits beside them. “It’s very tranquil here” Kei grins. “It is” Sora nodded, “Hey, that’s not what Im going to say!”

“So what’re you going to talk about?” Scott asked

“It’s about the blue GT-R I saw at Zele a couple week ago” he said, “Remember when I go with Ghost to sell the R35 of Violet Flower?”

“Oh, the hot sensei? Yeah, I remember” Steve nodded, “What about it?”

“It keeps on bothering me… maybe I should bought it and see what’s what” he answered

“Yeah, whatever...” Kei sighed and gets up as he stretches his cramped body. He walked towards his NA2 on the car port and fires the engine. As the dry engine comes to life, he continued his talk. “Come on, we only got two weeks to deal with the Ghost” says Kei, “I'm sure he’s preparing his NA1 by now”

“Fine. Let’s move” Steve gets up also and ignites the engine of his 911, “Hop in, Sora”

(Momma Sed (Tandimonium Mix) by Puscifer - Need for Speed Undercover Original Soundtracks)

All of them went to the bank to let Sora takes all of his deposits from his savings account. All of them drives as quickly as they can towards the highway and heads to Yokohama district, where Zele dealership is at. A couple of week ago, Sora went to that very place to sell the Nissan GT-R, which he got from Sakura. Half an hour drive with Kei, Scott, and Steve, the four arrives at the dealership. “This is it…” Sora nodded, “Let’s go in right away”

All of them cuts off their engine and gets out of their car. Inside the place, Inoue Shin was already waiting for them. “Sora, how are you doing?” he asked. “I'm fine, Shin-san. How are you?” Sora replied

“I'm fine thank you… you guys here to take the blue GT-R from the other day?” he asked

All of them were very surprised, hearing what Shin just said to them. “How did you know we’re going to get it?” Sora asks, with his head filled with riddles. Shin nodded at them, throwing a smile to his customer, “I just had a hunch that you will come back someday through that door and bought this GT-R” he said, “Please follow me to take care of the paperwork”

Steve and Sora follows him to the office. Kei smiled as he stares at Scott and mention something he always believed in. “There was never any coincidence… all of it was already written on the paper of fate” he bites his lip, “You believe me now?”

“With that in front of my eyes?” Scott grins, “I sure am”

Half an hour later, Sora is done and he gets himself another GT-R. Even though it’s factory stock, he can feel his spirits coming back to him. “How is it?” Kei asked

“It feels great, Kei!” he grits his teeth, “I can feel it… I'm back!!!”

“Good to hear… let us prepare the modifications” Steve nodded

Now it’s time to spend his money to tweak it. The four drove back to Tokyo and heads into Nismo Omori factory. When they did arrive, a trailer of Nismo Omori team is seen outside the building. All of them parks their car and approaches Nismo Omori. “Welcome, Sky King” Bernard said

“What are you doing here, Ben?” he asked

“I'm here with all of my mechanics to help you tune the GT-R” Bernard nodded

“How did you know it? What is this? The power of manga?!” Scott asked

“It’s fate… I’ve been dreaming about this since few weeks ago” he said, “Well, get your GT-R in and let’s start working right away”

“Wow… I'm speechless” Sora frowns, “Thank you, guys… I really mean it”

“Sir… we have no spare parts in stock to modify the engine” said one of the mechanics

“Damn… we’ll begin with the chassis, then” Bernard nodded, “You guys, go to Kojiro Speed right now and get the package”

“What package?” Steve asked

“Kamiya told me that she has an old R-tune engine which she ordered before she converted her V-spec into a Z-tune… she told me if someday, someone might need it, she kept it on the attic of the garage”

“Where are they now?” Sora asked

“They are going to the place of Kojiro’s cousin at London” Bernard said, “After this, I'm also leaving this country and get back to Canada with Eva”

“I see…” Sora lowered his head

“Sora!” Scott said

“I got it!” he replied as he drives one of the pickup truck of Nismo Omori. Kei hops into the pickup also, followed by Steve and Scott. “Let’s go” Kei said

They arrived at Kojiro’s garage few minutes later. The place is now deserted, since Kojiro and Kamiya already left the country to London. The place is barricaded with a lot of wooden bars and yellow police lines. Kei takes his knife and cuts some of them, in order to let them in. while Steve and Scott waits outside to guard the place, Kei and Sora went inside to look for the way to the attic. “Where is it?” Sora asked

“Not sure… you tell me, this is the first time I’ve been here” Kei shrugs

Sora looks around with Kei, trying to find where the engine is being stored. The two checks out the office, which Kojiro used to put his things. So far, they didn’t find anything useful, even though the two finds a locked door beside Kojiro’s office. “It’s locked” Sora said. “Move aside, let me shoot it” Kei replied.

DOR! DOR!

The bullet certainly hits the door knob, but nothing happened. The doorknob stays intact at the steel door. “What the?!” Kei thought. Meanwhile on the outside, snow started to fall once again as Steve and Scott waits in front of the deserted building. “Damn, it’s getting very chilly around here” Steve shivered. “Yeah, tell me about it” Scott nodded

(Pleasant Intrigue by Sakuraba Motoi and Aoyama Hibiki - Tales of Vesperia Original Soundtracks)

As the two gets inside as well, a kid is seen running past them and stands in front of the two guys. “Hey, kid… what are you doing here?” Steve asked. The kid can only replied with a smile from his face. For some reason, the kid’s face is very familiar. “Have I seen you before?” Steve asked again, “Hey, you guys… come here for a second”

Hearing his call, the two decided to take a look on what’s happening to them. When they do, Kei and Sora are very surprised to see what they have done. “Stay away from the kid, Steve!” Kei said, “What are you doing, bullying a little kid?!”

“What the hell?! I didn’t do anything” he said in panic, “Here take a look on his face… recognizes him?”

When Kei takes a look also, he immediately recognizes whose face is that. The trio immediately stares at Sora with a weird look. “Wh, what?!” he asked

“Is this kid yours?” Kei asked as he lifts the kid in front of his face. “I can't believe it that you’re actually cheating on Aya” Steve added

“No, no! I will never ever do that!” Sora said, “What are you doing here, kid? Where are your mommy and daddy?”

The kid stares at Kei, asking him to put him down. Kei nodded and puts him down and surprisingly, the kid holds Sora’s hand. “Heh, figures” Kei smirked wide, “Who is his mother, huh?”

“No, no, no!!!” Sora pulls his hand off the kid, “Why are you holding my hand, huh? I don’t know you and you certainly not my son”

“Are you sure, Sora?” Scott grins, “He knows who his daddy is alright…”

“Argh! It’s not like that”

The kid pulls Sora’s hand and leads him into Kojiro’s office. The other trio followed the two and as they get into Kojiro’s office, the kid actually opened the steel door with his own two hands. What he did completely freaks Sora and Kei. “What the?! Didn’t this door was locked?” Sora asked, “How bad is your shooting anyways?”

“Hey, don’t look at me! The bullet hits the door, alright!” Kei argues, “You see it by your own eyes earlier”

“Damn it, you guys can never do anything correctly” Steve spins his head as he follows the kid, leaving the two guys arguing to each other

“Stop making an excuse to make yourselves feel good” Scott shrugs, “Come on!”

Before Kei and Sora enters the door, Steve and Scott are very surprised when they saw no one is entering the room. “Where is the kid?!” Steve asked

“What the hell?! Of course he’s also in that room!” Kei yelled, “Stop being stupid and look for the engine!”

“There isn’t anyone here!” Scott added

“Stupid people… why did I stick with these guys?” Kei shrugs as he enters the room, “What the? Hey kid, stop playing and get out; we done have time to play with you”

Sora knew that kid is not an ordinary kid. His face looks exactly like Sora and in fact, he is little Sora on his elementary school days. Why he did show up here, even he didn’t know what to think about it. Nevertheless, Sora follows them and went up to the attic. “Careful… this place hasn’t been used for awhile and looks a bit flimsy and unstable”

Sora carefully walks toward the end of the attic and the four saw a huge wooden crate. “Is that it?” Kei asked
Sora opens it with a crowbar and calls him to see the engine. “So this is the R-tune engine” Kei nodded, “We got the engine, let’s haul it into the pickup truck!”

All of them drive back to Nismo Omori factory as quickly as possible with the engine. “You guys are late” Bernard said, “What happened?”

“We ah… sort of run into a ghost that looked like junior Sora” Steve wheezed. “I’ll never ever visit that place again in my entire life” Scott exhaled lightly

“Yeah, yeah…” Bernard sighed, “Let us begin immediately”

All of them change their clothes and gets ready to modify the blue R34. It’s going to be a long day for all of them. Over at Nagisa’s place, Hikaru is seen with all of his friends preparing his NA1 type-R for the battle against Sora and Steve. All of them looked pretty serious and the entire mechanics of Nagisa’s garage are lending their hands to fasten their project.

(Riot by Sugarcult - Lights Out)

Sora and Kei gets the car to the hydraulic lift and starts taking off all of the tires. Steve and Scott begin with taking off the body parts to be replaced with lightweight materials. Some of Bernard’s mechanic begins to strip the interior of the car and removes all of the interior trims. They gets out the spot welding machine and start adding more weld onto the chassis to make it more rigid. “Hm?” one of the mechanic said, “Sir, looks like this car has gone through a chassis refreshment here last week”

“I see… that is good to hear, then” Bernard nodded

“We have to thank Shin-san for it” Sora grins

“Inoue Shin? Well… I never thought I will ever hear his name anymore” Bernard smirked, “Is he doing well?”

“He’s doing great”

“I see… that is good. Go on, continue working, all of you”

Kei takes off the footwork and replaces most of the parts with Nismo racing parts. Braces, new adjustable suspension, bushings, tower bars, sway bars- all of them were replaced. The new dampers are from Ohlins with gas canisters, while the springs use Eibach. Steve takes off the old brakes and replaces it with 8 pistons Brembo brakes for front and 6 pistons for rear. Scott gets the gearbox and replaces it with six speed sequential manual from Getrag, which Bernard orders for his race car. The rest of the other mechanics takes care of the fine tuning for the engine and its component. For the entire week, all of them working ten hours everyday in order to compensate the short dead line.

On the second week, most of them are ready. All that is left is reinforcing and the carbon fiber body parts. “Sir, the carbon fiber reinforcing parts are ready” said one of the mechanics to Bernard

“Good… put it on” Bernard said

The doors are replaces with carbon fiber, as well as the wide fender flares, trunk, rear spoiler and the body kit are specially fabricated by Nismo. However, for the carbon bonnet Sora decided to use the one from Sunline Racing. The rims used are 18’’ Rays Engineering Volk Racing RE30 with Bridgestone Potenza RE01. Right now, the suspensions are being tuned by the mechanics as Kei types on his laptop, trying to find the perfect settings for the new parts. During the lunch break, Sora takes a look on his new R34 and wondered as he caresses the roof. Kei is sitting inside the passenger side and he is still typing the settings data to the E.C.U. He knows Sora is still reluctant to battle his old teammates. “It’s just like a dream” Sora said

“Yeah... but what your teammates said to you the other day is a reality” Kei replied, “They think of you as a threat and all of them will improve themselves and their car”

“...”

“All you can do is rise to fight them” Kei continued, “Because if you never moved on, there is no place you can run into without even thinking about them”

After the lunch break is done, all of them do some more work on the car. And after few hours had passed, the car is ready when the sun has started to set on the horizon, except for few parts. “Okay… what is left are racing harnesses and eight point roll cage” Bernard said, “Go take a look around town and have a taste of your new GT-R and its performance”

“Okay… let’s go” said Sora to his friends

Since the rear seats haven’t been taken off yet, all of them get into the blue GT-R. Steve and Scott sit on the back while Kei sits beside Sora to give the settings on his car. “There is a major power outage at Shutokou, so I guess it’s should be alright for you guys to have a run” Bernard said, “Kamiya left the engine in a good condition, as well as running it for 1,000 kilometers, which is proven to be enough, even for racing engine”

“So it’s alright if I push it hard?” Sora asked

“It is” Bernard replied, “The carbon fiber roll cage will be done by tomorrow morning”

The clock has shown six P.M and it’s time to do a test run. There is less cars at Shutokou, since last night’s blizzard, which is disturbing most of the power lines at Shutokou. The highway lights aren’t working very well and it’s a great opportunity to try out the performance of the car. “Okay… let’s go, Sora” Kei nodded as he finished typing, “Let’s run around at C1 for a bit”

He headed towards C1 and haves a run for two consecutive laps. Kei is letting him having a run at C1 to see how the acceleration of the lower RPMs is. “How is it?” Kei asked

“It feels nice… the acceleration on 4,000 to 6,000 is not very good, however”

“Got it…” Kei corrects the mapping of the E.C.U

“I can't believe Bernard actually requested a special HKS F-Con V-pro” Scott said. “Well, he said his friend works on the R&D department, so I guess they will use it as a data for the improvement of the next generation of F-Con” Steve nodded, “This one is equipped with launch control as well”

“Yeah… how is the shifting feel?”

“It’s perfect… it feels light and easy to handle” Sora replied, “It’s okay if I go to Wangan Line now?”

“Let’s go… we need to see how far this engine will be on straight line performance” Kei agrees

Sora heads to Hakozaki junction and went all the way towards Wangan Line. As the sky gets darker, Sora switches his headlights to high beam mode. When he gets around Tatsumi, he feels sluggish on the acceleration on higher gear, particularly fifth and sixth. “Scott… something is wrong with fifth gear and sixth gear acceleration” Kei said, “Really? How does that possible?” Scott takes a look on the laptop, “Try to correct the 4,000 to 6,000…”

“We’ll kill the acceleration on mid-range RPM, then” Kei shrugs

“What is wrong with this car?” Sora wondered, “Aoi didn’t have a problem like this”

“Let’s try and continue for now” Steve said, “Kei and Scott will figure it out eventually”

But in fact, the two computer geeks are trying as hard as they can to solve the problem. “Maybe the air fuel ratio is not right?” Scott asked. “I checked it three times- nothing is wrong and there isn’t any loophole”

When Kei checks his laptop once again, someone is trying to establish a data transfer and synchronize with his laptop. The synchronizing takes some time, since they has to be in a close range. “Hm?” Kei thought aloud, “What is this?”

“What’s wrong?” Steve asked

“I'm not sure… someone is trying to establish a data transfer” Kei replied, “Who is it?”

When Kei continues to type on the laptop, a strange high-pitch beep is alerting them. “Not enough space on the hard disk?” Kei asked, “What the?”

Steve grins as looks to Kei with a strange look. “Hee... it must have been full with hentai stuff on that laptop”

“You stupid! We bought this Mac brand new from the App Store at Akihabara after the lunch break- and you even came along with me!” Kei smacked his head, “How can I fill it up with hentai stuffs, when I’m busy uploading the settings data to the E.C.U, huh?”

"Ouch..." Steve rubs his head

The laptop won’t start buzzing, and it begins to make Scott panicked. “What is that? A virus?”

“Stupid Mac! Even though I turn off the sound, it still beeps. Is this an error?”

When Kei searches the id number of the PC which is trying to establish a connection, there is none. “No one is trying to establish a connection, yet it’s still trying to transfer the data” Kei thought, “What is happening?”

The night suddenly gets darker and darker. There are only moonlights and the headlights of the car, which Sora drives. All of them cannot even see the roads ahead of them. From behind, someone is sending high beam- a racing signal to Sora. “Something is coming fast behind me… and it wants a race”

(Fairy by Shiono Dougen and Mishiba Satoshi - Sentou Yousei Yukikaze Original Sountracks volume 1)

It’s a car which has better acceleration than Sora’s R34. Sora takes a look on his MFD, which shows erratic display, with all of the bars are trying to be synchronized with data bars from another MFD. “It’s not trying to synchronize with my Macbook… it’s trying to synchronize with this car” Kei looks puzzled, “What is it? What is trying to synch with this GT-R?”

As the headlights grew closer and closer, the four guys finally see the shape of the car as the car gets in line with them- a blue R34 Z-tune. “It’s him” Sora said flatly. The trio takes a look at Sora, who is still staring at the blue Z-tune on the right side of the car. As the two cars blasts through the highway, the face of the Z-tune driver is revealed by the moonlight; another Sora is seen, driving the blue Z-tune. Sora exhaled lightly as he gets ready to face the lingering spirit of the Sky King of Shutokou.

For a moment, all of them just stared into the driver of the blue Z-tune, as the driver of the Z-tune stares back at them. No matter how you look at it, the driver is Sora- which is strangely enough when the real Sora is driving this blue R34 with them as the passengers. The Z-tune shifts down, accelerating forward and leaving all of them. “What the hell?!” Scott closes his eyes, “That is enough scary experience for these two weeks for me”

“Heh… You are indeed cursed” Kei added, “The spirit of the old Sky King is here and it challenges the new host of the Sky King”

“Looks that way…” Sora wheezed, “So what should I do?”

Sora looks at Kei and he looks at him back. He gives his stern look and as he turns his head to the laptop he sighed and gives his advice. “Do you have a choice here?” Kei remarked, “Do what you want to do”

“Well, then… I'm going to follow it and see what it wants”

“Hey, if we follow it we’ll across the river of Styx and we might just die!” Steve continued

“You read too much manga in your free time” Sora pushes his shift knob forward, shifting down a gear and accelerates forward to follow the blue Z-tune

Kei and Scott now understand why Steve said that the blue Z-tune had a mystical and mysterious quality around it. With just a few days sticking around with Sora, the two of them already experienced strange thing- twice, to be exact. “What does the Z-tune wants with you?” Steve asked, “She already chooses Aya as her new partner”

“Some things are just too good to let go, Steve” Sora sighed, “If she knew this car is not as fast as she does, then I will never ever bested the old me”

Kei replied flatly, trying to get inside the head of his new teammate. “Maybe you are the one who has problem here. You still can't let it go easily, huh? I know now that car is alive, and it looked like she is responding to your call”

Sora didn’t give any reply or argument to what Kei just said. He knew Kei is right and he still can't let Aoi go and move on, accepting his present GT-R. Sora follows the Z-tune closely and follows its trail from behind. “Drafting… now that is a good start” Scott nodded, “Believe in yourself and this GT-R, Sora… you can do it”

There is no use, following the blue Z-tune with cheap tricks like that. Instead, the blue Z-tune started to gain more and more distance ahead of them. “The settings don’t feel right” Sora groaned, “What should I do? I want to defeat her so badly”

“This… is… w…t… other… fe..ls… wh…n… they… run… behi… you…” A voice can be heard faintly from the loudspeaker of Kei’s Macbook. He turns back on the speakers and a woman can be heard talking to four of them, the people inside the blue GT-R. “I am the protector spirit of the Sky King… tell me mortals, what do you seek by trying to catch up with me?” she asked

The four people are very surprised and scared at the same time. Sora calms himself down and tried to answer her question. “I want to move on and embrace my fate” Sora answered

“By chasing a shadow of your past?” she asked again, “Tell me… what you seek by chasing me?”

Sora didn’t know what to say. However, he knew that he had to do one thing so he could move on with his life. “I want to be the fastest… with this GT-R, I want to be even faster than the old Sky King” Sora nodded, “I will never run away anymore”

“What you seek is already within you… I will help you for one last time, Sora” she replied

Something came up on Kei’s monitor. It’s a transfer of a notepad document. He accepts it and the transfer has begun. After waiting about a minute and half, Kei opens the notepad he received and inside it, was a set of complicated numbers. “Sora, look at this” Kei calls him, “This is settings data for E.C.U”

“Apply it right away and we’ll see how it goes” Sora nodded

Kei quickly copies all the numbers and applies it to the settings of this GT-R. “Come on!” Sora urges him

“Wait… uploading data to the E.C.U…” Kei exhaled lightly, “There…”

Sora can feel something changes on his new car. The response is the same as his old Z-tune. His confidence started to return and he feels great, just by driving this new GT-R. He shifted up and starts to close the gap with the blue Z-tune in front of him. As the blue GT-R lined up beside the blue Z-tune, the other Sora is smiling to them. As Sora overtakes the Z-tune, another notepad document come up on the screen of the Macbook. Kei opens it and all of them take a look on the message inside. “Good luck… Sora…”

With that message, the blue Z-tune suddenly gone and the four of them are running on dark Tamegawa tunnel. “Is that it?” Steve wondered aloud. “It’s done…” Sora nodded, “My new car is done”

Meanwhile, somewhere on the outskirts of Chiba prefecture… the red 380RS is seen running alone. Claire is seen driving it on fast pace as she chews a gum energetically. She speeds past the pink Honda Fit and drifted through the corner of the road. Another car is seen, trailing behind it. A silver Z-tune, driven by Aya. It speeds up and catches the 380RS in no time at all. The two are driving endlessly to improve themselves, along with their improved cars. “How was the setting on the suspension?” Kamiya asked from her phone

“It feels nice and firm on high speeds. It also feels tight and easy to handle on the corners” Aya replied

Kojiro is delaying their departure from Tokyo, just to help Aya and Claire with their cars. Right now, the two are waiting at Narita Airport for their flight to London. “Okay... it’s been a long day for the two of you” Kojiro said, “Now we can leave Tokyo in peace, since your cars are ready”

“Thank you for delaying your departure, just to re-paint my Z-tune” Aya smiled, “You guys also helps me tune this baby to my preference”

“No problem” Kamiya shrugs, “I have an obligation to help both of you, and now you are ready to stand on your own two feet”

“Thank you, ma’am...” Claire continued

“I already left my notebook on your place. That should help you with your tuning and adjustment of your car” Kamiya exhaled

“Attention to the passengers for the flight to London, United Kingdom. Please ready your boarding pass to the fifth gate” said the female announcer

“Let us go, Kojiro... Kamiya” said the manager

“Well... there is our plane” Kamiya sighed, “Take care, girls... good luck on your journey and I hope you will meet up with Sora and Steve soon”

“Good luck, Kojiro... Kamiya... manager” Claire bites her lip, holding her tears, “I hope you can have a peaceful life at UK”

“We will visit you sometime... good luck and thank you” Aya added

“Take care, girls” the manager nodded

With that, Kamiya and Kojiro hangs up the phone and threw them away to the trash can. The three boards the plane and finally left Tokyo this time. Approximately 500 meters ahead is a small house with car port, enough to accommodate two cars inside it. Aya and Claire are still on the run and they are currently hiding in one of the houses, owned by her cousin. “Well...” Aya said

“The roadblocks are still there and we can’t access Tokyo like this” Claire sighed, “I still can't reach Sora or Steve. We can't use our old mobile phone, or even call them to our house”

“They are clever… they dump their old mobile phone to avoid the police from tracking their mobile phone. The police have already cross checked everyone according to their data, and it’s just a matter of time before Hikaru and the others are found out” Aya nodded, “We’ll wait until the end of the year and we’ll go back to our house when the situation has cooled down”

“What if we miss the two of them? I'm sure all of them will probably leave the country”

“Then we’ll just have to follow them and find them wherever they go” Aya nodded

“You are enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“On the run like this? A little... my cousin joins the FBI and being a gun collector, he must’ve something we can use in his house” Aya said, “Hm... Government issue Beretta M9 and Sig Sauer P229R...”

“I’ll take the Sig” Claire nodded. “Then I’ll take the M9” Aya smiled

Claire puts away the Sig and sits on the leather couch. “I’m worried about Steve”

“I’m sure they’ll be just fine” Aya exhaled lightly as she takes off her jeans jacket, “You remember the guy with NSX-R on Sendai from couple of week ago? I’m sure he’ll keep an eye out for Steve and Sora”

“How could you stay calm? I wonder if he’s eating just right” she exhaled with worry

“He’s not a third grader, you know” Aya frowns

This post has been edited by R_E_X on Aug 10 2010, 11:15 PM

You, sir, are great!

Oo this even make me want too read more MOAR ^^

I have found great interest in this story. The character development is pretty fast unlike wangan midnight and initial D, and you know your stuff about cars REX. It really makes this story feel "professional". I can't wait if it turns into a manga, or anime. This has great potential, please write more

Sora's story hasn't finished yet...but I think I might have another character suggestion if possible....

EDIT: on second thought, maybe professional isn't the right word to describe a story like this

This post has been edited by Lethalbiscotti on Jul 30 2010, 09:24 PM

What would it be? Mine would be Kenzz, but I feel that it is too umprofessional for you.

hahaha good one

but plz, all jokes aside.

This post has been edited by Lethalbiscotti on Jul 30 2010, 09:33 PM

A hakosuka would be a good car for the series, but it is more likely for a flashback car for one of the more expereinced drivers, since it may be a bit rare nowadays.

I've also got some serious ideas for characters, but the sub-plot would be so huge, that I would think it would be the main plot rather than a novelty.

Speaking of which, how do you come up with these characters, plot, and locations when they're so good? As a writer, I am jealous.